Considering the imperfect cooperation among workers in the two-sided partial disassembly line balancing problem and the corresponding multi-modal multi-objective …

ZY Xu, Y Han, D Zhu - Applied Soft Computing, 2025 - Elsevier
In existing research on the balance of the two-sided disassembly line, the additional
disassembly time caused by the imperfect cooperation of workers on both sides of the …

[HTML][HTML] Relating pronunciation distance metrics to intelligibility across English accents

T Bent, M Henry, RF Holt, H Lind-Combs - Journal of Phonetics, 2024 - Elsevier
Unfamiliar accents can cause word recognition challenges, particularly in noisy
environments, but few studies have incorporated quantitative pronunciation distance metrics …

Inherit or innovate?–evidence from China's auto industry's new car series naming

J Wei, H Zhou, Y Zhao - International Journal of Market …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The automotive industry introduces a sizable number of new automobile products annually.
The naming of new products may have significant impact on their market performance …

Dynamic acoustic vowel distances within and across dialects

CG Clopper - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Vowels vary in their acoustic similarity across regional dialects of American English, such
that some vowels are more similar to one another in some dialects than others. Acoustic …

[PDF][PDF] Lost in Pronunciation: How Listeners' Navigate through a Non-native Accent

DAF Grandón - Psychological Science, 2024 - research-information.bris.ac.uk
This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from Explore Bristol Research,
http://research-information.bristol.ac Page 1 This electronic thesis or dissertation has been …

Digital Inclusion and Culture: Training LLaMA-2 to Empower Kichwa Communities

J León, D Riofrío, F Grijalva… - 2024 Tenth International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Language serves as a fundamental thread in humanity's social tapestry, intertwining
individuality with collective identity. More than a mere instrument, it had been culture …

[PDF][PDF] Interpretable Speech Representation and Editing

M Morrison - 2024 - maxrmorrison.com
Speech is an efficient and foundational medium of human communication, conveying
information via words (ie, the lexical content), prosody (ie, the pitch, duration and loudness …