Acoustic reduction refers to the frequent phenomenon in conversational speech that words
are produced with fewer or lenited segments compared to their citation forms. The few …

In this paper, a large Hungarian spoken language database is introduced. This phonetically-
based multi-purpose database contains various types of spontaneous and read speech from …

Over the last few decades, corpus-linguistic methods have established themselves as
among the most powerful and versatile tools to study language acquisition, processing …

Automatic and accurate detection of the closure-burst transition events of stops and
affricates serves many applications in speech processing. A temporal measure named the …

This paper provides a description of the preparation, the speakers, the recordings, and the
creation of the orthographic transcriptions of the first large scale speech database for …

This paper presents the first large-scale analysis of pronunciation variation in conversational
Austrian German. Whereas for the varieties of German spoken in Germany, conversational …

We describe a speech corpus based on the “Up” series of documentary films by director
Michael Apted, showing a set of individuals at seven year intervals over a period of 42 years …

In this paper we introduce an inductive bias for language acquisition under a view where
learning of the various levels of linguistic structure takes place interactively. The bias …

In the last decade, there was a growing interest in conversational speech in the fields of
human and automatic speech recognition. Whereas for the varieties spoken in Germany …

Examining articulatory compensation has been important in understanding how the speech
production system is organized, and how it relates to the acoustic and ultimately …