Essays about: "Speaker alignment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Speaker alignment.

1. 1. Investigating the Reciprocal Relationship between News and Parliament: A Study of Strikes in the UK Using Deep-learning Sentiment Analysis and Vector Autoregression

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Yente Meijers; [2023]
   Keywords : parliamentary debate; Hansard; newspaper coverage; UK strikes; agenda setting; BERT; SiEBERT; NLP; deep learning; sentiment analysis; vector autoregression; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Previous research has shown that the relationship between the news and parliament is complex and highly variable. Studies have found that in many countries, parliament has minimal influence on the news. However, in the UK, a reciprocal influence between parliament and the news was found, with the media having a stronger effect. READ MORE

3. 2. Appraisal in Political Speech: A Comparative Discursive Study of Winston Churchill and Tony Blair

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Richard Helander; [2014]
   Keywords : Appraisal theory; Appraisal framework; Political speech; Discourse Analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis; Us and them; Positive self- and negative other presentation; Legitimisation; Winston Churchill; Tony Blair; Speaker alignment; Judgement; Heteroglossic engagement; Rhetoric; Politicial language; Speaker-addressee context creation; War rhetoric; Intervention rhetoric; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This study investigated alignments in speeches held by two historically prominent politicians: Sir Winston Churchill and Tony Blair. The speeches that comprised the data of this study were a speech from 3 September, 1939, for the former, and a speech held on 18 March, 2003, for the latter. READ MORE

4. 3. Constant Tonal Alignment in Swedish Word Accent II

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Malin Svensson; [2013]
   Keywords : tonal alignment; segmental anchoring; word accent; pre-nuclear accent; speech rate; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Studies on accentual tonal alignment of intonational languages suggest a segmental anchoring of tonal targets, more specifically that L in rising (LH) pre-nuclear accents anchors with a specific point in the segment, while the timing of H varies. This study tests if lexical accents, too, exhibit a constant alignment by testing the South Swedish word Accent II using speech rate as an experimental tool. READ MORE

5. 4. Microphone Array Wiener Beamforming with modeling of SRP- PHAT for Speaker Localization

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap

   Author : SRISESHUKUMAR BASAVA; [2012]
   Keywords : MIcrophone array; Wiener beamforming; Source localization;

   Abstract : The use of microphone arrays to acquire and recognize speech in meetings (conference) poses several problems for speech processing as there exist many speakers within a small space, typically around a table. The necessity to design a suitable microphone array system with minimum noise and more efficient localization algorithms is drawing attention of researchers to work on it. READ MORE

6. 5. Far-Field Wiener Beamforming and Source Localization in Frequency Domain

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap

   Author : Sarath Chandra Uppalapati; Deepak Penugonda; [2012]
   Keywords : Wiener Beamformer; SRP-Phat; SRK-Phat; Reverberation;

   Abstract : In present conference environments where video recording is required, a set of cameras operated by a human being is needed to track the active speaker as he discusses in the conference. In order to automate this procedure, different methods have been developed in acoustic and visual tracking. READ MORE