Search Results - "Tucker, Benjamin V"

Reconsidering classic ideas in speech communication by Winn, Matthew B, Wright, Richard A, Tucker, Benjamin V

“…The papers in this special issue provide a critical look at some historical ideas that have had an influence on research and teaching in the field of speech…”
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A Situational Analysis of Current Speech-Synthesis Systems for Child Voices: A Scoping Review of Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence by Terblanche, Camryn, Harty, Michal, Pascoe, Michelle, Tucker, Benjamin V.

“…(1) Background: Speech synthesis has customarily focused on adult speech, but with the rapid development of speech-synthesis technology, it is now possible to…”
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Paradigmatic enhancement of stem vowels in regular English inflected verb forms by Tomaschek, Fabian, Tucker, Benjamin V., Ramscar, Michael, Harald Baayen, R.

“…Many theories of word structure in linguistics and morphological processing in cognitive psychology are grounded in a compositional perspective on the (mental)…”
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Native Listeners' Use of Information in Parsing Ambiguous Casual Speech by Warner, Natasha, Brenner, Dan, Tucker, Benjamin V, Ernestus, Mirjam

“…In conversational speech, phones and entire syllables are often missing. This can make "he's" and "he was" homophonous, realized for example as [ɨz]…”
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Examining the effect of high-frequency information on the classification of conversationally produced English fricativesa by Kharlamov, Viktor, Brenner, Daniel, Tucker, Benjamin V.

“…This study examines the role of frequencies above 8 kHz in the classification of conversational speech fricatives [f, v, θ, ð, s, z, ʃ, ʒ, h] in random forest…”
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Perception of non-native consonant length contrast: The role of attention in phonetic processing by Porretta, Vincent J, Tucker, Benjamin V

“…The present investigation examines English speakers’ ability to identify and discriminate non-native consonant length contrast. Three groups (L1 English…”
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Temporal and spectral characteristics of conversational versus read fricatives in American English by Kharlamov, Viktor, Brenner, Daniel, Tucker, Benjamin V.

“…The present study compares the production of fricatives in conversational versus read speech in American English. The goal is to examine which parameters…”
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Documenting and modeling the acoustic variability of intervocalic alveolar taps in conversational Peninsular Spanish by Perry, Scott James, Kelley, Matthew C., Tucker, Benjamin V.

“…This study constitutes an investigation into the acoustic variability of intervocalic alveolar taps in a corpus of spontaneous speech from Madrid, Spain…”
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Introduction to the special issue on the phonetics of under-documented languages by Tucker, Benjamin V., Wright, Richard

“…As scientists, it is important to sample as broadly as possible; however, there is a bias in the research performed on the speech acoustics of the world's…”
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Phonetic variability of stops and flaps in spontaneous and careful speech by Warner, Natasha, Tucker, Benjamin V.

“…Variability is perhaps the most notable characteristic of speech, and it is particularly noticeable in spontaneous conversational speech. The current research…”
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Computational modelling of an auditory lexical decision experiment using jTRACE and TISK by Nenadić, Filip, Tucker, Benjamin V.

“…We present a series of computational simulations of the auditory lexical decision task using the jTRACE and TISK models of spoken word recognition. Simulation…”
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A comparison of four vowel overlap measures by Kelley, Matthew C., Tucker, Benjamin V.

“…Multiple measures of vowel overlap have been proposed that use F1, F2, and duration to calculate the degree of overlap between vowel categories. The present…”
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Using acoustic distance and acoustic absement to quantify lexical competition by Kelley, Matthew C, Tucker, Benjamin V

“…Using phonological neighborhood density has been a common method to quantify lexical competition. It is useful and convenient but has shortcomings that are…”
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The Massive Auditory Lexical Decision (MALD) database by Tucker, Benjamin V., Brenner, Daniel, Danielson, D. Kyle, Kelley, Matthew C., Nenadić, Filip, Sims, Michelle

“…The Massive Auditory Lexical Decision (MALD) database is an end-to-end, freely available auditory and production data set for speech and psycholinguistic…”
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Orthographic influence in the distributional learning of non-native speech sounds by Alarifi, Abdulaziz, Tucker, Benjamin V

“…This study investigated the role of orthographic information in the acquisition of non-native speech sounds by monolingual English listeners. Two potentially…”
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The Lombard intelligibility benefit of native and non-native speech for native and non-native listeners by Marcoux, Katherine, Cooke, Martin, Tucker, Benjamin V., Ernestus, Mirjam

“…•We compared native English and non-native (Dutch) Lombard and plain speech.•Canadian, Dutch and Spanish listeners participated in an intelligibility…”
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The influence of gradient foreign accentedness and listener experience on word recognition by Porretta, Vincent, Tucker, Benjamin V., Järvikivi, Juhani

“…The present article examines lexical processing of foreign-accented speech, specifically as it relates to gradient foreign accentedness and listener…”
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The development of synthetic child speech in three South African languages by Terblanche, Camryn, Schnoor, Tyler T, Harty, Michal, Tucker, Benjamin V

“…It is well-known that children with expressive communication difficulties have the right to communicate, but they should also have the right to do so in…”
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Semantic Richness Effects in Isolated Spoken Word Recognition: Evidence From Massive Auditory Lexical Decision by Nenadić, Filip, Podlubny, Ryan G., Schmidtke, Daniel, Kelley, Matthew C., Tucker, Benjamin V.

“…While known to influence visual lexical processing, the semantic information we associate with words has recently been found to influence auditory lexical…”
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The Mason-Alberta Phonetic Segmenter: a forced alignment system based on deep neural networks and interpolation by Kelley, Matthew C, Perry, Scott James, Tucker, Benjamin V

“…Given an orthographic transcription, forced alignment systems automatically determine boundaries between segments in speech, facilitating the use of large…”
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