The paper describes the design, collection, transcription and analysis of 200 hours of
HKUST Mandarin Telephone Speech Corpus (HKUST/MTS) from over 2100 Mandarin …

Aim: To develop and validate an instrument, the Hong Kong Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy
in Dentistry (HKREALD‐30). Methods: The Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry …

Previous studies on temporal and tonal aspects of languages are usually based on limited
data from a small number of subjects. It is difficult to know whether these findings can really …

Purpose This study investigates the impact of intertalker variations on the process of
map** acoustic variations on tone categories in two different tone languages. Method …

We investigate a novel cross-lingual multi-speaker text-to-speech synthesis approach for
generating high-quality native or accented speech for native/foreign seen/unseen speakers …

Purpose–As it has been suggested that adult third-culture kids may be more culturally
adaptable than others, they have been labelled “the ideal” expatriates. The purpose of this …

Aphasia is a common type of acquired language impairment resulting from dysfunction in
specific brain regions. Analysis of narrative spontaneous speech, eg, story-telling, is an …

This paper describes the application of state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR)
systems to objective assessment of voice and speech disorders. Acoustical analysis of …

This paper describes and proposes an efficient and effective framework for the design and
development of a speaker-independent continuous automatic Arabic speech recognition …

This paper describes an investigation on automatic speech assessment for people with
aphasia (PWA) using a DNN based automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. The main …