Essays about: "Forced alignment"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Forced alignment.
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1. On dysgraphia diagnosis support via the automation of the BVSCO test scoring : Leveraging deep learning techniques to support medical diagnosis of dysgraphia
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : Dysgraphia is a rather widespread learning disorder in the current society. It is well established that an early diagnosis of this writing disorder can lead to improvement in writing skills. READ MORE
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2. Automatic Annotation of Speech: Exploring Boundaries within Forced Alignment for Swedish and Norwegian
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : In Automatic Speech Recognition, there is an extensive need for time-aligned data. Manual speech segmentation has been shown to be more laborious than manual transcription, especially when dealing with tens of hours of speech. READ MORE
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3. Text and Speech Alignment Methods for Speech Translation Corpora Creation : Augmenting English LibriVox Recordings with Italian Textual Translations
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : The recent uprise of end-to-end speech translation models requires a new generation of parallel corpora, composed of a large amount of source language speech utterances aligned with their target language textual translations. We hereby show a pipeline and a set of methods to collect hundreds of hours of English audio-book recordings and align them with their Italian textual translations, using exclusively public domain resources gathered semi-automatically from the web. READ MORE
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4. Automatic phonological transcription using forced alignment : FAVE toolkit performance on four non-standard varieties of English
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Forced alignment, a speech recognition software performing semi-automatic phonological transcription, constitutes a methodological revolution in the recent history of linguistic research. Its use is progressively becoming the norm in research fields such as sociophonetics, but its general performance and range of applications have been relatively understudied. READ MORE
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5. Do non-alignment, geography and size matter? The motives and effects behind participation in EU security and defence missions – the cases of Finland, Sweden and Ireland.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This master’s thesis examines the motives of non-aligned, geographically peripheral and smaller European Union (EU) Member States (MS) Finland, Sweden and Ireland to participate in EU military crisis management operations. It also studies the effects that these MS have had in the development of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). READ MORE