Search for dissertations about: "speech research"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 227 swedish dissertations containing the words speech research.
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1. But What Do They Mean? : Modelling Contrast Between Speakers in Dialogue Signalled by “But”
Abstract : Understanding what is being communicated in a dialogue involves determining how it is coherent, that is, how the successive turns in the dialogue are related, what the speakers’ intentions, goals, beliefs, and expectations are and how they relate to each other’s responses. This thesis aims to address how turns in dialogue are related when one speaker indicates contrast with something in the preceding discourse signalled by “but”. READ MORE
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2. Mining Speech Sounds : Machine Learning Methods for Automatic Speech Recognition and Analysis
Abstract : This thesis collects studies on machine learning methods applied to speech technology and speech research problems. The six research papers included in this thesis are organised in three main areas. The first group of studies were carried out within the European project Synface. READ MORE
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3. Estimation of Speaker Age : Effects of Speech Properties and Speech Material
Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to investigate factors related to accuracy in estimation of speaker age and the role of certain speech properties in perception and manipulation of speaker age, as well as their interaction with the speech material that the age estimates were based on. This thesis consists of three studies. READ MORE
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4. Disfluency in Swedish human–human and human–machine travel booking dialogues
Abstract : This thesis studies disfluency in spontaneous Swedish speech, i.e., the occurrence of hesitation phenomena like eh, öh, truncated words, repetitions and repairs, mispronunciations, truncated words and so on. READ MORE
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5. Attitude to Speech and Communication in Individuals Born with Cleft Lip and Palate
Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to explore and describe how individuals who are born with a cleft lip and palate experience their communicative situation, how they perceive their speech and whether their views correlate with the results of speech assessments made by specialised speech-language pathologists (SLPs). Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used. READ MORE