Similarity has always been a key aspect in computer science and statistics. Any time two
element vectors are compared, many different similarity approaches can be used …

Speech and music have structured rhythms. Here we discuss a major acoustic correlate of
spoken and musical rhythms, the slow (0.25–32 Hz) temporal modulations in sound intensity …

Abstract We present the Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA), a new opensource system for
speech-text alignment. MFA is an update to the Prosodylab-Aligner, and maintains its key …

Animals produce vocalizations that range in complexity from a single repeated call to
hundreds of unique vocal elements patterned in sequences unfolding over hours …

The discriminative lexicon is introduced as a mathematical and computational model of the
mental lexicon. This novel theory is inspired by word and paradigm morphology but …

This article is a crosslinguistic investigation of the hypothesis that the average information
rate conveyed during speech communication results from a trade-off between average …

Speech datasets are crucial for training Speech Language Technologies (SLT); however,
the lack of diversity of the underlying training data can lead to serious limitations in building …

Frequent or contextually predictable words are often phonetically reduced, ie shortened and
produced with articulatory undershoot. Explanations for phonetic reduction of predictable …

A novel, data-driven approach to voice activity detection is presented. The approach is
based on Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks trained on standard RASTA …

Prosody conveys information about the linguistic context of an utterance at every level of
linguistic organisation, from the word up to the discourse context. Acoustic correlates of …