Search for dissertations about: "speech errors"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 34 swedish dissertations containing the words speech errors.

  2. 1. The /k/s, the /t/s, and the inbetweens : Novel approaches to examining the perceptual consequences of misarticulated speech

    Author : Sofia Strömbergsson; David House; Åsa Wengelin; Benjamin Munson; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; speech perception; speech disorders; speech synthesis; speech analysis; Tal- och musikkommunikation; Speech and Music Communication;

    Abstract : This thesis comprises investigations of the perceptual consequences of children’s misarticulated speech – as perceived by clinicians, by everyday listeners, and by the children themselves. By inviting methods from other areas to the study of speech disorders, this work demonstrates some successful cases of cross-fertilization. READ MORE

  4. 2. Grammatical correctness and communicative ability : a performance analysis of the written and spoken English of Swedish learners

    Author : Inger Bergström; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; grammatical correctness; communicative ability; performance analysis; written and spoken English; classroom instruction; low-achievers; language learning; interlanguage; compensatory strategies; errors; verb phrase; parameters; systematicity; variability; writing proficiency; speech proficiency; elicitation test;

    Abstract : Written and oral material produced by a group of low-achieving learners of English from the 2-year lines of the Swedish upper secondary school was analysed from the perspective of grammatical correctness and communicative ability. The grammatical analysis focussed on the verb phrase and tests included both free production in speech and writing and elicitation tests. READ MORE

  5. 3. Coding Speech for Packet Networks

    Author : Jonas Lindblom; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; packet loss concealment; voice over IP; speech coding; harmonic modeling; vector quantization; sinusoidal modeling; Gaussian mixture modeling; bounded support; frame erasure; variable dimension;

    Abstract : The topic of this thesis is speech coding for packet networks. Problems related to the use of packet networks for voice communication are addressed. Real-time voice communication is for example very delay sensitive; if the total end-to-end delay in a telephone session grows large, it is perceived as annoying. READ MORE

  6. 4. Semantic Self-monitoring in Speech. Using Real-time Speech Exchange to Investigate the Use of Auditory Feedback for Self-comprehension

    Author : Andreas Lind; Kognitionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Speech production; self-monitoring; voice manipulation; self-comprehension; sense of agency; auditory feedback; Real-time Speech Exchange; internal monitoring;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates speech production and self-monitoring by using a newly constructed Real-time Speech Exchange (RSE) system. This system makes it possible to covertly manipulate the auditory feedback that participants receive of their own voice. READ MORE

  7. 5. Probabilistic Sequence Models with Speech and Language Applications

    Author : Gustav Eje Henter; W. Bastiaan Kleijn; Arne Leijon; Gernot Kubin; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Time series; acoustic modelling; speech synthesis; stochastic processes; causal-state splitting reconstruction; robust causal states; pattern discovery; Markov models; HMMs; nonparametric models; Gaussian processes; Gaussian process dynamical models; nonlinear Kalman filters; information theory; minimum entropy rate simplification; kernel density estimation; time-series bootstrap;

    Abstract : Series data, sequences of measured values, are ubiquitous. Whenever observations are made along a path in space or time, a data sequence results. To comprehend nature and shape it to our will, or to make informed decisions based on what we know, we need methods to make sense of such data. READ MORE