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Phonetic Distance between Dutch Dialects

by John Nerbonne, Wilbert Heeringa, Erik van den Hout, Peter van der Kooi, Simone Otten, Willem van de Vis, Alfa-informatica Bcn - Proceedings of CLIN'95, Antwerp , 1996
"... Traditional dialectology relies on identifying language features which are common to one dialect area while distinguishing it from others. It has difficulty in dealing with partial matches of features and with nonoverlapping language patterns. This paper applies Levenshtein distance---a measure of s ..."
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of string distance---to pronunciations to overcome both of these difficulties. Partial matches may be quantified, and nonoverlapping patterns may be included in weighted averages of phonetic distance. The result accords with traditonal dialectology to a satisfying degree. 1 Introduction This paper applies

Phonetic Distance Based Confidence Measure

by Member, IEEE Wooil Kim , Fellow, IEEE John H L Hansen
"... Abstract-This letter presents a novel confidence measure for the purpose of improving user performance in Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR). The proposed confidence measure is based on the phonetic distance between subword models, employing an anti-model which is determined to be discriminative to a ..."
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Abstract-This letter presents a novel confidence measure for the purpose of improving user performance in Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR). The proposed confidence measure is based on the phonetic distance between subword models, employing an anti-model which is determined to be discriminative to a

Inducing phonetic distances from dialect variation

by Martijn Wieling, Eliza Margaretha, John Nerbonne
"... In this study we attempt to derive phonetic distances from alternative dialectal pronunciations used in different geographical varieties. We use two dialect atlases each containing the phonetic transcriptions of the same set of words at hundreds of sites. We collect the sound correspondences through ..."
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In this study we attempt to derive phonetic distances from alternative dialectal pronunciations used in different geographical varieties. We use two dialect atlases each containing the phonetic transcriptions of the same set of words at hundreds of sites. We collect the sound correspondences

Phonetic distance measures for speech recognition vocabulary and grammar optimization

by Michael Pucher, Andreas Türk, Jitendra Ajmera, Natalie Fecher - in 3rd Congress of the Alps Adria Acoustics Association , 2007
"... This paper reports on the correlation between word confusion matrices from Word-Error-Rate (WER) experiments and different phonetic distance measures. The investigated phonetic distance measures are based on the minimum-edit-distances between phonetic transcriptions and the distances between Hidden- ..."
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This paper reports on the correlation between word confusion matrices from Word-Error-Rate (WER) experiments and different phonetic distance measures. The investigated phonetic distance measures are based on the minimum-edit-distances between phonetic transcriptions and the distances between Hidden

Whole-Word Phonetic Distances and the PGPfone Alphabet

by Patrick Juola , Philip Zimmermann
"... Like many cryptosystems, PGPfone[13] requires a method of reliably exchanging binary data over noisy phone lines. This paper describes a method of encoding binary data into a "radio alphabet," using a feature-based distance metric to measure phonetic confusibility, then using this metric ..."
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Like many cryptosystems, PGPfone[13] requires a method of reliably exchanging binary data over noisy phone lines. This paper describes a method of encoding binary data into a "radio alphabet," using a feature-based distance metric to measure phonetic confusibility, then using this metric

The role of phonetic distance in the acquisition of phonological alternations

by Anna Lambrechts, Sharon Peperkamp - In , 2011
"... In phonology, it has often been noted that some regularities are typologically more frequent than others. For example, alternations that change [i] to [u] occur more often than alternations that change [i] into [i] (Chomsky and Halle, 1968). In order to explain such typological asymmetries, many pho ..."
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phonological theories refer to their phonetic bases: Typologically frequent

Whole-Word Phonetic Distances and the PGPfone Alphabet

by Patrick Juola Yz, Philip Zimmermann Z
"... 2. Linguistic distances Like many cryptosystems, PGPfone[13] requires a method of reliably exchanging binary data over noisy phone lines. This paper describes a method of encoding binary data into a \radio alphabet, " using a feature-based distance metric to measure phonetic confusibility, then ..."
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2. Linguistic distances Like many cryptosystems, PGPfone[13] requires a method of reliably exchanging binary data over noisy phone lines. This paper describes a method of encoding binary data into a \radio alphabet, " using a feature-based distance metric to measure phonetic confusibility

Detecting Repetitions in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Phonetic Distances

by Jose ́ Lopes, Giampiero Salvi, Gabriel Skantze, Alberto Abad, Joakim Gustafson, O Batista, Raveesh Meena, Isabel Trancoso
"... This paper addresses the problem of automatic detection of re-peated turns in Spoken Dialogue Systems. Repetitions can be a symptom of problematic communication between users and systems. Such repetitions are often due to speech recognition errors, which in turn makes it hard to use speech recogniti ..."
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recognition to detect repetitions. We present an approach to detect rep-etition using the phonetic distance to find the best alignment between turns in the same dialogue. The alignment score ob-tained is combined with different features to improve repeti-tion detection. To evaluate the method proposed we

Decomposing naturalness in phonological rule learning: the role of phonetic distance

by Sharon Peperkamp
"... Recent work has shown that both adults and infants can use statistical information during phonological acquisition. Several studies have shown that linguistic knowledge- in the form of constraints on naturalness- is exploited as well (e.g. Pycha et al. 2003, Wilson 2006, Peperkamp et al. 2006, but s ..."
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, but see Seidl & Buckley 2005). In our work, we seek to disentangle the influence of different factors that are usually grouped together under the term naturalness. Here, we focus on phonetic distance (as opposed to, for instance, whether the alternation is assimilatory or not, or whether it targets

The effects of phonetic distance, learning context and learner proficiency on L2 perception of English liquids

by Sally Chen, Janice Fon - In Procs. ICPhS XVI. Saarbrüken , 2007
"... This study aims to investigate the effects of phonetic distance, learning context and learner proficiency on L2 perception of English liquids. Reaction time difference between the pre- and post-tests was analyzed. Results showed that the natural context induced the most progress for participants of ..."
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This study aims to investigate the effects of phonetic distance, learning context and learner proficiency on L2 perception of English liquids. Reaction time difference between the pre- and post-tests was analyzed. Results showed that the natural context induced the most progress for participants
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