• 2021 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS) (pp. 1-4). (purdue.edu)
  • Phonetic perception and the temporal cortex. (crossref.org)
  • This aspect of the theory was dropped, however, with the discovery that prelinguistic infants could already detect most of the phonetic contrasts used to separate different speech sounds. (wikipedia.org)
  • Initially, speech perception was assumed to link to speech objects that were both the invariant movements of speech articulators the invariant motor commands sent to muscles to move the vocal tract articulators This was later revised to include the phonetic gestures rather than motor commands, and then the gestures intended by the speaker at a prevocal, linguistic level, rather than actual movements. (wikipedia.org)
  • A particular phonetic variability of interest is speech speed. (frontiersin.org)
  • Phonetic variation of various kinds, including (1) dialectal variation in Swedish and other languages, (2) paralinguistic variation like age, emotion, attitude and health condition, and (3) phonetic variation in human-animal communication. (lu.se)
  • Human adults and human infants show a perceptual magnet effect for the prototypes of speech categories, monkeys do not. (crossref.org)
  • Our behavioral experiments include perceptual acoustical behavior in humans (speech and music perception) and in birds (song and call discrimination). (berkeley.edu)
  • Examination of perceptual reorganization for nonnative speech contrasts: Zulu click discrimination by English speaking adults and infants. (bvsalud.org)
  • Does assigning responsibility involve perceptual (or perception-like) capacities? (lu.se)
  • ABSTRACT: In The Rationality of Perception, Susanna Siegel defends the claim that "Both perceptual experiences and the processes by which they arise can be rational or irrational. (lu.se)
  • This programme combines elements of linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and engineering and is taught by leading researchers from Linguistics & English Language, the Centre for Speech Technology Research, and the School of Informatics. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Linguistics involves the scientific study of human language, which the major approaches from a theoretical, generative perspective. (brandeis.edu)
  • To this end, we adduce a broad range of evidence from linguistics, genetics, paleontology, and archaeology clearly suggesting that Neandertals shared with us something like modern speech and language. (frontiersin.org)
  • The domain that I want to focus on is society, specifically linguistics in text and speech. (grademiners.com)
  • To this end, the project brings together a unique and highly qualified team representing Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology, Geoscience and History of Religions to investigate language of perception in three diverse Language Observatories. (lu.se)
  • Musical experience and the aging auditory system: Implications for cognitive abilities and hearing speech in noise. (crossref.org)
  • Cognitive processes in speech perception. (mpi.nl)
  • Gabay Y. (2023) Internal Cognitive Load Differentially Influences Acoustic and Lexical Context Effects in Speech Perception: Evidence From a Population With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. (oeaw.ac.at)
  • Bosker H.R. (2022) Encoding speech rate in challenging listening conditions: White noise and reverberation. (oeaw.ac.at)
  • At the Lund Early Career Workshop 2022: Perception and Responsibility we aim to foster a space in which we can draw out some of these connections. (lu.se)
  • This suggested that speech is not heard like an acoustic "alphabet" or "cipher," but as a "code" of overlapping speech gestures. (wikipedia.org)
  • Both acoustic and visual information influence human perception of speech. (arxiv.org)
  • The system learns a mapping function from raw video frames to acoustic features and reconstructs the speech with a vocoder synthesis algorithm. (arxiv.org)
  • The focus of the experiments in chapter 5 is the investigation of acoustic speech recordings in comparison to corresponding articulographic recordings. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • A wealth of theoretical and empirical arguments have suggested that music triggers emotional responses by resembling the inflections of expressive vocalizations, but have done so using low-level acoustic parameters (pitch, loudness, speed) that, in fact, may not be processed by the listener in reference to human voice. (lu.se)
  • When applied to musical material, we find that these three acoustic manipulations trigger emotional perceptions that are remarkably similar to those observed on speech and scream sounds, and identical across musician and. (lu.se)
  • The motor theory of speech perception is the hypothesis that people perceive spoken words by identifying the vocal tract gestures with which they are pronounced rather than by identifying the sound patterns that speech generates. (wikipedia.org)
  • The discovery of mirror neurons has led to renewed interest in the motor theory of speech perception, and the theory still has its advocates, although there are also critics. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this paper, we present the results of a study to investigate the effect of voice type (human voice vs. synthetic voice) on two aspects: (1) the IVA's likeability and voice impression in the light of co-presence, and (2) the interaction outcome, including human-agent trust and behavior change intention. (mdpi.com)
  • Computers in Human Behavior 143, 107693. (uni-trier.de)
  • All forms of human behavior require us to process and understand information we receive from our environment in either spatial or temporal patterns. (interactivemetronome.com)
  • It's hard to find any complex human behavior where mental timing is not involved. (interactivemetronome.com)
  • As expected, the intelligibility of speech time-compressed by a factor of three (i.e., a high syllabic rate) was poor. (frontiersin.org)
  • It has also been shown, by improved word scores when subjects wear the proof-of-concept device and by increased or acceptable STI values in simulation, that the intelligibility of speech in the communication channel can be improved while maintaining adequate control of environmental noise. (cdc.gov)
  • The results in terms of estimated speech quality and intelligibility show the effectiveness of our method, which exhibits an improvement over existing video-to-speech approaches. (arxiv.org)
  • Important methods and research approaches using simulation technology for the study of human speech can also be found in natural language processing and speech signal processing as well as in areas of computer science such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • Smart Speech Systems: A Focus Group Study on Older Adult User and Non-User Perceptions of Speech Interfaces. (purdue.edu)
  • Humans are remarkably proficient at internally perceiving and monitoring time to produce precisely timed behaviors and thinking. (interactivemetronome.com)
  • This covers fundamental research on speech and language production and perception, to investigations of the effectiveness of clinical intervention. (mcgill.ca)
  • In a recent study at MIT, scientists note that music sensitivity may be more fundamental to the human brain than is speech perception. (nymetroparents.com)
  • Combining well-established methods with novel ones, the research focuses on two fundamental and interrelated arenas of perception: landscape and ritual. (lu.se)
  • Predictive coding and stochastic resonance as fundamental principles of auditory phantom perception. (medscape.com)
  • Moreover, this chapter deals with Human emotional expression and perception through various modalities such as speech, facial expressions, physiological signals, etc. (benthamscience.com)
  • Our neuro-physiological experiments include single unit recordings in songbirds and ECoG and fMRI recordings in humans. (berkeley.edu)
  • Psychoacoustics are introduced as the branch concerning human perception of sound and related physiological responses. (lu.se)
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction , 1-13. (purdue.edu)
  • International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 135-146). (purdue.edu)
  • Rooted in an engineering modelling approach, our research forms a solid base for developing multimodal human-computer interaction systems in which speech, music, sound and gestures combine to create human-like communication. (kth.se)
  • Human-computer interaction aims to enhance communication between man and machine so that machines can acquire, analyze, interpret and act on par with human beings. (benthamscience.com)
  • At the same time, Affective human-computer interaction focuses on enhancing communication between man and machines using affective information. (benthamscience.com)
  • Speech Communication is a publication of the European Association for Signal Processing ( EURASIP ), and the International Speech Communication Association ( ISCA ). (isca-speech.org)
  • The results indicate, as previous investigations have suggested, that high levels of speech understanding can be obtained using signal processors with a small number of channels. (researchgate.net)
  • The auditory efferent system presumably plays a role in enhancing signals in noise and, in particular, speech perception in background noise. (nih.gov)
  • The critical center frequencies of those filters are selected to mimic the human cochlear vibration patterns caused by audio signals. (researchgate.net)
  • The test persons received speech signals from different speakers. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This study shows that this is indeed the case: The part of the vMGB that transports information from the ear to the cerebral cortex processes auditory information differently when speech is to be recognized than when other components of communication signals are to be recognized, such as the speaker's voice for example. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A specialization of the left MGB in speech may explain why dyslexic people often have difficulty understanding speech signals in noisy environments (such as restaurants). (sciencedaily.com)
  • We are ready, at any moment, to make complex movements requiring muscle coordination with microsecond accuracy, or to decode temporally complex auditory signals in the form of speech or music. (interactivemetronome.com)
  • The investigation of simultaneous interpreters as an alternative approach to address the signature of multilingual speech processing. (crossref.org)
  • The evidence for this was the research finding that speech processing was special such as duplex perception. (wikipedia.org)
  • You will develop up-to-date knowledge of a broad range of areas in speech and language processing and gain the technical expertise and hands-on skills required to carry out research and development in this challenging interdisciplinary area. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Edinburgh has a proud and distinguished history of teaching in speech and language processing and you will be taught by world-leading experts. (ed.ac.uk)
  • The speech and language sciences have a long history, but it is only relatively recently that large-scale implementation of and experimentation with complex models of speech and language processing has become feasible. (isca-speech.org)
  • For neuroscientist Professor Katharina von Kriegstein from TU Dresden, however, the human brain remains the "most admirable speech processing machine. (sciencedaily.com)
  • It works much better than computer-based speech processing and will probably continue to do so for a long time to come," comments Professor von Kriegstein, "because the exact processes of speech processing in the brain are still largely unknown. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In a recent study, the neuroscientist from Dresden and her team discovered another building block in the mystery of human speech processing. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The Hierarchical Cortical Organization of Human Speech Processing. (berkeley.edu)
  • Even though mental timing (temporal processing) research is in a stage of infancy (when compared to spatial processing) important insights regarding the human brain clock have emerged. (interactivemetronome.com)
  • Human language is organized along two main processing streams connecting posterior temporal cortex and inferior frontal cortex in the left hemisphere, travelling dorsal and ventral to the Sylvian fissure. (bvsalud.org)
  • First, general anatomical differences were suggestive of considerable evolutionary distance from modern humans, with Neandertal robustness taken to imply strength compensating for restricted intelligence. (frontiersin.org)
  • Initially, the theory was associationist: infants mimic the speech they hear and that this leads to behavioristic associations between articulation and its sensory consequences. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's a human faculty that distinguishes human beings from animals. (bartleby.com)
  • With EQ, we have empathy, social skills, and the understanding of human beings' feelings and emotions. (a16z.com)
  • Detection of differential speech-specific processes in the temporal lobe using fMRI and a dynamic “sound morphing” technique. (crossref.org)
  • The proposed system processes the speech samples and applies a CNN for final pathological voice identification. (researchgate.net)
  • Like all technologies, AI and generative AI have the potential to enable increased efficiency and cost-savings where processes can be automated and streamlined, with minimal human intervention. (lawsociety.org.uk)
  • Why would musical training benefit the neural encoding of speech? (crossref.org)
  • Delta band RIN may serve as a neural metric of speech in noise comprehension beyond the effects of pure tone averages and working memory. (nih.gov)
  • We have also begun to study the transformations from sound to meaning both in songbird and in humans to decipher the neural code used for interpreting communication sounds (e.g. semantics) and for recognizing callers (e.g. voice perception). (berkeley.edu)
  • Left motor delta oscillations reflect asynchrony detection in multisensory speech perception. (mpg.de)
  • Considering speech as an inherently rhythmic phenomenon, in which linguistic information is pseudo-rhythmically transmitted in syllabic packets 1 , Ghitza and Greenberg (2009) questioned whether intelligibility is influenced by neuronal oscillations. (frontiersin.org)
  • Asymmetric relationships among perceptions of facial identity, emotion, and facial speech. (google.it)
  • In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (pp. 1631-1631). (purdue.edu)
  • In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (pp. 1372-1376). (purdue.edu)
  • General Aviation Weather Hazards: Current Human Factors Research, Pilot Practices, and Tools. (purdue.edu)
  • In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (pp. 123-126). (purdue.edu)
  • In International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (pp. 342-348). (purdue.edu)
  • Studies on the intelligibility of time-compressed speech have shown flawless performance for moderate compression factors, a sharp deterioration for compression factors above three, and an improved performance as a result of "repackaging"-a process of dividing the time-compressed waveform into fragments, called packets, and delivering the packets in a prescribed rate. (frontiersin.org)
  • For all speech speeds tested (with compression factors of up to eight), packaging rate at capacity equals 9 packets/s-aligned with the upper limit of cortical theta, θ max (about 9 Hz)-and the packet duration equals the duration of one uncompressed θ-syllable divided by the compression factor. (frontiersin.org)
  • This has increased particularly since the discovery of mirror neurons that link the production and perception of motor movements, including those made by the vocal tract. (wikipedia.org)
  • The McGurk effect shows that seeing the production of a spoken syllable that differs from an auditory cue synchronized with it affects the perception of the auditory one. (wikipedia.org)
  • A number of research disciplines are identified as being relevant for the subject of this thesis which are concerned with human speech perception and production. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • Relevant work on exemplar theory and speech perception and production models are discussed. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • The fastest timing system (millisecond or interval timing) is involved in a numerous human behaviors such as speech and language, music perception and production, coordinated motor behaviors, attention, and thinking. (interactivemetronome.com)
  • Increased cortical surface area of the left planum temporale facilitates the discrimination of temporal speech information in musicians. (crossref.org)
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which individual differences in pure tone averages, working memory, and cortical tracking of the speech envelope relate to speech in noise comprehension in older adults. (nih.gov)
  • Cortical tracking of continuous speech was assessed using electroencephalography in older adults (60 to 80 years). (nih.gov)
  • Alignment of f0 peak in different pitch accent types affects perception of metrical prominence. (uni-trier.de)
  • Spasmodic dysphonia (SD) is currently understood to be a focal dystonia that affects laryngeal muscle control during speech. (medscape.com)
  • The cocktail party phenomenon: A review of research on speech intelligibility in multiple-talker conditions. (crossref.org)
  • Our research training programs encompass the latest paradigms to study human communication and its disorders across the lifespan. (mcgill.ca)
  • The journal provides a focus for this work, and encourages an interdisciplinary approach to speech and language research and technology. (isca-speech.org)
  • The mission of the Research Cluster in Developmental Science ( RCDS) is to create, apply, and promote new knowledge in human development that could ultimately lead to evidence-based interventions. (utoronto.ca)
  • Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. (uni-trier.de)
  • It does so by situating field linguists at the center of an interdisciplinary research framework in which language expertise provides the crucial point of connection between researchers and lesser-known speech communities and knowledge systems. (lu.se)
  • The project explores human perception, a field in which recent research hints at considerable but still poorly understood variation across human languages and cultures. (lu.se)
  • Soundscapes research, which analyzes the perception of sonic environments, is also discussed. (lu.se)
  • Chapter 4 presents experiments on speech segmentation and addresses the question how humans can achieve this faculty based on the available information. (uni-stuttgart.de)
  • The use of Active Learning systems for stimulus selection and response modelling perception experiments. (uni-trier.de)
  • This particular technology utilises a computer system to perform tasks that are normally performed by human intelligence. (careersonline.com.au)
  • We're gradually approaching human parity in a number of human tasks, especially in perception, from computer vision to speech to more and more natural language. (a16z.com)
  • While some chatbots operate based on predefined responses, advanced versions use AI (including generative AI techniques) to provide more dynamic and contextually relevant interactions, reducing the need for immediate human intervention. (lawsociety.org.uk)
  • Human subjects were young adult, middle aged and old (n = 10/group). (nih.gov)
  • The performance of the proof-of-concept device has been established by measurements involving human subjects under conditions of environmental noise and communication that do not pose a risk to hearing, and in simulation for other conditions. (cdc.gov)
  • I am interested in the sounds cats use in their vocal communication with cats and humans, and how these sounds are combined and varied (and how humans perceive them). (lu.se)
  • To improve speech reconstruction performance, our model is also trained to predict text information in a multi-task learning fashion and it is able to simultaneously reconstruct and recognise speech in real time. (arxiv.org)
  • In speech, there's this very standard dataset called a Switchboard dataset that records two sides of a phone conversation. (a16z.com)
  • Speech Communication , Bd. (oeaw.ac.at)
  • Check the membership page to find out how to subscribe to Speech Communication at a reduced rate for ISCA members. (isca-speech.org)
  • An official publication of the International Speech Communication Association ( ISCA ). (isca-speech.org)
  • How human brain circuitry enables our communication capabilities constitutes a compelling scientific challenge. (frontiersin.org)
  • My laboratory is interested in vocal communication in both animals and humans. (berkeley.edu)
  • A proof-of-concept hearing protection device (HPD) has been developed to improve the speech intelligibility of a built-in electronic communication channel while maintaining the audibility of a tonal warning sound external to the HPD, and adequate attenuation of environmental noise. (cdc.gov)
  • Cat-cat and cat-human communication. (lu.se)
  • Journal of experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 14 , 345-360. (bvsalud.org)
  • The conclusions, findings, and opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. (cdc.gov)
  • discrimination and violations of their human rights. (who.int)
  • It is usually assumed that modern language is a recent phenomenon, coinciding with the emergence of modern humans themselves. (frontiersin.org)
  • Understanding speech in adverse listening environments is challenging for older adults. (nih.gov)
  • These findings demonstrate that the magnitude of delta band RIN relates to individual differences in speech in noise comprehension in older adults. (nih.gov)
  • The Effects of Engagement in Physical Exercise on Semi-autonomous Takeover Request Perception between Younger and Older Adults. (purdue.edu)
  • Self-perception of driving abilities in older age: a systematic review. (purdue.edu)
  • Sound categories are represented as distributed patterns in the human auditory cortex. (crossref.org)
  • The lexicon, considered as a component of the process of recognizing speech, is a device that accepts a sound image as input and outputs meaning. (mpi.nl)
  • Room acoustics are analyzed, since they deal with the sound environment of closed spaces but also spaces of musical operations such as concert halls, speech or performance rooms and recording studios. (lu.se)
  • This chapter addresses the problems of auditory lexical access from continuous speech. (mpi.nl)