Major progress is being recorded regularly on both the technology and exploitation of
automatic speech recognition (ASR) and spoken language systems. However, there are still …

The pronunciation of words is highly variable. This variation provides crucial information
about the cognitive architecture of the language production system. This review summarizes …

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 …

This study describes the weakening of intervocalic/s/in the Nijmegen Corpus of Casual
Spanish and investigates the role of several potential conditioning factors, including …

In spontaneous, conversational speech, words are often reduced compared to their citation
forms, such that a word like yesterday may sound like ['jεʃei]. The present chapter …

Tashlhiyt is a low-resource language with respect to acoustic databases, language corpora,
and speech technology tools, such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. This …

This article presents two studies investigating how the situation in which speech is uttered
affects the frequency with which words are reduced. Study 1 is based on the Spoken Dutch …

This paper investigates the realization of word-final/t/in conversational standard Dutch. First,
based on a large number of word tokens (6747) annotated with broad phonetic transcription …

Speech recognition of a language is a key area in the field of pattern recognition. This paper
presents a comprehensive survey on the speech recognition techniques for non-Indian and …

A categorical phonological process of deletion is traditionally assumed to account for the
alternation of schwa with zero in French. This process is assumed to result in two discrete …