Essays about: "accents"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 57 essays containing the word accents.
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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 engelskaAbstract : 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
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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)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
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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)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
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4. Modeling Melodic Accents in Jazz Solos
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)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
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5. Neural Asymmetry in the Perception of South Swedish Word Accents
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/FonetikAbstract : 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