Essays about: "Speech test"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 128 essays containing the words Speech test.

  1. 1. IDENTIFYING HATE SPEECH IN SOCIAL MEDIA THROUGH CONTENT AND SOCIAL CONNECTIONS ANALYSIS

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Milan Stanišić; [2023-06-19]
    Keywords : hate speech; social media; natural language processing; classification;

    Abstract : Hate speech is a problem which puts its targets at risk of serious harm. It spreads fast and has a real influence on the society because of the ubiquity of the internet and social media, and so various research efforts have been put to find solutions to automatic hate speech detection. READ MORE

  3. 2. PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: REFUSAL SPEECH ACT BY IRANIAN STUDENTS IN SWEDEN

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Kazhal Shatery; [2023-04-19]
    Keywords : English; culture; speech act of refusal; pragmatic; pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics; politeness theory; refusal strategies;

    Abstract : Understanding cross-cultural differences plays a crucial role in communication and successful cross-cultural communications depends on various factors such as pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics. Many researchers focus more on the aspect of pragmatics such as speech acts. The present study is a contrastive study of refusal speech act. READ MORE

  4. 3. Investigating reading comprehension in Reading While Listening and the relevancy of The Voice Effect

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

    Author : Edvin Hedenström; Axel Barck-Holst; [2023]
    Keywords : RWL; Reading-while-listening; Multimedia learning; Multimodal Learning; TTS; text-to-speech; reading comprehension;

    Abstract : Various forms of multimedia learning have been shown to aid learners time and time again. One form of multimedia learning that has not been thoroughly studied is reading while listening (RWL). This is especially the case when it comes to the immediate impacts on reading comprehension from practising RWL. READ MORE

  5. 4. Gender Bias in Machine Learning : The Effect of Using Female Versus Male Audio When Classifying Emotions in Speech Using Machine Learning

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

    Author : Julia Adler; Klara Folke; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : To avoid discrimination between the genders and to improve the performance of machine learning, it is important to evaluate how different test data can impact how accurate machine learning models can be. This study investigates if the distribution between women and men in the training data affects how accurately different machine learning models can classify emotions used in the speaker’s tone of voice. READ MORE

  6. 5. Punctuation Restoration as Post-processing Step for Swedish Language Automatic Speech Recognition

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik

    Author : Ishika Gupta; [2023]
    Keywords : Transformer; BERT; KB-BERT; NLP; punctuation restoration; deep learning; neural networks;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on the Swedish language, where punctuation restoration, especially as a postprocessing step for the output of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) applications, needs furtherresearch. I have collaborated with NewsMachine AB, a company that provides large-scale mediamonitoring services for its clients, for which it employs ASR technology to convert spoken contentinto text. READ MORE