Essays about: "male female speech"
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1. PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: REFUSAL SPEECH ACT BY IRANIAN STUDENTS IN SWEDEN
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : 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
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2. 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)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
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3. Implementing UX/UI in a real-time speech recognition and translation application in Android and a clinical study
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronikAbstract : According to WHO(World Health Organization) there are over 1,5 billion people living with hearing loss. Furthermore, HRF(Hörselskadades riksförbund) believe that ‘hidden hearing loss’ can be a much larger scale of the population than what was believed. There are two parts in this project taking place parallel. READ MORE
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4. Gradually Changing Gender Attribution of Speech Recordings Using Interpolated Filters
University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistikAbstract : When we listen to human speech, one of the first characteristics we assess is the gender of the speaker. For individuals who suffer from gender dysphoria, this may cause them to be negatively impacted by their voice not matching their gender identity. Therefore, some persons attempt to change their voices with a speech-language therapist. READ MORE
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5. A qualitative study about speech anxiety and its challenges from a student perspective
University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikationAbstract : The purpose of this study was to investigate, firstly, some Swedish upper secondary school students’ attitudes towards speaking in the English as a second language (ESL) classroom and, secondly, how these students suggest that speech anxiety should be dealt with. The participating students were both male and female and attended different school years and English courses. READ MORE
