How are new technologies and methodologies advancing our understanding of allophonic variation?

... language phonological features (phonemes and allophones) and diagnose pronunciation problems. ... information regarding their students' language levels, language. In speech there are different kinds of structural information, which are to some degree independent (see the figure). The complex phonetic information is ... Informational websites introducing Samsung's Bixby voice assistant caution that speech ... of the allophone (Li et al., 2020) for multilingual language models. Dec 7, 2024 ... Visual information from a speaker's mouth region is known to improve automatic speech recognition robustness. However, the vast majority of ... Mar 1, 2016 ... Indexical information in speech is the main focus of socio-phonetics, and much is now known about it (Hay & Drager, 2007). Numerous studies ... Those seven allophones include a huge range of very different sounds, five of which can be roughly represented by the vowels in the English words hay, head, hut ... and non-Anglophones — allophones, in other words — mainly from Francophone Africa ... Information, Language and Community Program Policy. Peter Sylvester ... Dec 15, 2010 ... ... allophone that occurs. Allophones are different acoustic variations ... informational, ...) has when there are components which ... LUDWIG REICHERT VERLAG. Laura Grestenberger, Charles Reiss,. Hannes A. Fellner and Gabriel Z. Pantillon (eds.) Page 4. Bibliografische Information der Deutschen ... Unlike native English speakers, who marked new and contrastive information with a higher F0 in both read and spontaneous speech, Spanish, Thai, and Japanese ...