Development of a conversational telephone speech recognizer for Levantine Arabic

For efficient collection of speech recordings, the ability to search for spoken terms in the speech stream is an essential capability. Although the Chinese spoken term detection (STD) does not suffer the out-of-vocabulary (OOV) problem as English, it is still hard to retrieve the long spoken terms which contain four characters or more. In this paper, we details our approach for long Mandarin spoken term detection which combines the search on inverted index produced by speech recognizer and linear scan on syllable confusion network. First, we split the long spoken terms into syllables and search the syllables on the inverted index _le to get the segments which may contain the long spoken terms. Then we use a linear scan algorithm on syllable confusion networks (SCNs). On two Mandarin conversation telephone speech sets, we compare performance using the method proposed with that of the baseline syllable-based systems, and our approach gives satisfying performance gains over the others.

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Loudness ratings of telephone speech paths

Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers ◽

10.1049/piee.1971.0077 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 118 (3-4) ◽

pp. 423

Author(s):

D.L. Richards

Keyword(s):

Telephone Speech

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Speaker-Oriented Attitude Datives in Social Context

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474434072.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Youssef A. Haddad

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Shared Values ◽

Social Functions ◽

Rapport Management ◽

The Social ◽

Different Types ◽

Levantine Arabic ◽

Values And Beliefs ◽

Social Acts

This chapter examines the social functions of speaker-oriented attitude datives in Levantine Arabic. It analyzes these datives as perspectivizers used by a speaker to instruct her hearer to view her as a form of authority in relation to him, to the content of her utterance, and to the activity they are both involved in. The nature of this authority depends on the sociocultural, situational, and co-textual context, including the speaker’s and hearer’s shared values and beliefs, their respective identities, and the social acts employed in interaction. The chapter analyzes specific instances of speaker-oriented attitude datives as used in different types of social acts (e.g., commands, complaints) and in different types of settings (e.g., family talk, gossip). It also examines how these datives interact with facework, politeness, and rapport management.

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Conceptualizations of the Heart in Jordanian Arabic: A Cognitive Perspective

International Journal of Linguistics ◽

10.5296/ijl.v12i4.17360 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 65

Author(s):

Omar Bani Mofarrej ◽

Ghaleb Rabab'ah

Keyword(s):

Human Body ◽

Human Heart ◽

Conceptual Metaphor ◽

Cognitive Mechanisms ◽

Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽

Cognitive Perspective ◽

Jordanian Arabic ◽

Metaphor Theory ◽

Idiomatic Expressions ◽

Levantine Arabic

The present paper examines the metaphorical and metonymical conceptualizations of the heart in Jordanian Arabic (JA) within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory developed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980). The main aim is to explore how the human heart is conceptualized in JA, and to test the applicability of the different general cognitive mechanisms proposed by Niemeier (2003 and 2008) to those found in JA. The data were extracted from Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions in Levantine Arabic: Jordanian Dialect (Alzoubi, 2020), and other resources including articles, dissertations and books of Arabic proverbs. The findings revealed that all the four general cognitive mechanisms suggested by Niemeier (2003 and 2008) are applicable to JA. The findings also showed that the similarity derives from the universal aspects of the human body, which lends tremendous support to the embodiment hypothesis proposed by cognitive linguists.

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