Search results for: English vowels

• Visual Lip Contour Detection for the Purpose of Speech Recognition

  Publication

  • P. Dalka
  • P. Bratoszewski
  • A. Czyżewski

  - Year 2014

  A method for visual detection of lip contours in frontal recordings of speakers is described and evaluated. The purpose of the method is to facilitate speech recognition with visual features extracted from a mouth region. Different Active Appearance Models are employed for finding lips in video frames and for lip shape and texture statistical description. Search initialization procedure is proposed and error measure values are...

• ALOFON corpus

  Open Research Data

  • B. Kostek
  • G. Szwoch
  • T. Ciszewski
  • P. Spaleniak
  • A. Czyżewski
  • S. Zaporowski

  The ALOFON corpus is one of the multimodal database of word recordings in English, available at http://www.modality-corpus.org/.  The ALOFON corpus is oriented towards the recording of the speech equivalence variants. For this purpose, a total of 7 people who are or speak English with native speaker fluency and a variety of Standard Southern British...

• "Ash" [æ] sound then and now: an overview of the current state of knowledge

  Publication

  • B. Grobelna

  - Estudios de Fonetica Experimental - Year 2022

  The objective of this article is to review the existing studies on the British Received Pronunciation “ash” [æ] sound, as well as its variations outside the United Kingdom. It starts with a short analysis of sociolinguistic aspects of the Received Pronunciation accent, then it points out the most conspicuous differences between the Received Pronunciation and General American vowel systems. Then, it presents the early beginnings...

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