Essays about: "Accents"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 57 essays containing the word Accents.

  1. 1. Is it enough to be understood? A study of teacher attitudes towards accent in the EFL classroom

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Martin Silva; [2023]
    Keywords : accents; teacher attitudes; pronunciation; English as a lingua franca; World Englishes; nativelikeness; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study investigates teacher attitudes towards accent in the EFL classroom. The central theoretical base for this study is English as a lingua franca (ELF), which proposes that intelligibility is the key to communication in English between people from different backgrounds. READ MORE

  3. 2. Stereotypes in social robots : How accents & appearances in social robots affect human-robot interactions.

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Wilhelm Ahlqvist; Anton Wennmark; [2023]
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    Abstract : Stereotypes are affecting our daily lives. From the interactions between human beings to political decisions from law makers, stereotypes are part of our subconscious tools of perception. READ MORE

  4. 3. Improving accuracy of speech recognition for low resource accents : Testing the performance of fine-tuned Wav2vec2 models on accented Swedish

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Arash Dabiri; [2023]
    Keywords : Speech-to-text; deep learning; accents; wav2vec; tal-till-text; djupinlärning; brytningar; wav2vec;

    Abstract : While the field of speech recognition has recently advanced quickly, even the highest performing models struggle with accents. There are several methods of improving the performance on accents, but many are hard to implement or need high amounts of data and are therefore costly to implement. READ MORE

  5. 4. Modeling Melodic Accents in Jazz Solos

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Misael Berrios Salas; [2023]
    Keywords : Accents; Jazz Solo; Support Vector Regression SVR ; eXtreme Gradient Boosting XGBoost ; Multiple Linear Regression MLR ; Dynamic; Accenter; Jazz Solos; Support Vector Regression SVR ; eXtreme Gradient Boosting XGBoost ; Multiple Linear Regression MLR ; Dynamisk;

    Abstract : This thesis looks at how accurately one can model accents in jazz solos, more specifically the sound level. Further understanding the structure of jazz solos can give a way of pedagogically presenting differences within music styles and even between performers. Some studies have tried to model perceived accents in different music styles. READ MORE

  6. 5. Neural Asymmetry in the Perception of South Swedish Word Accents

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

    Author : Huayuan Cui; [2023]
    Keywords : speech perception; South Swedish; Swedish word accents; mismatch negativity; MMN; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : South Swedish, as a dialect of modern Swedish, has two tonal word accents, accent 1 and accent 2. Regarding these two word accents, there are three groups of hypotheses on which one is more lexically specified. READ MORE