Search results for "speech analysis"
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Decoding Children's Social Behavior
2013
We introduce a new problem domain for activity recognition: the analysis of children's social and communicative behaviors based on video and audio data. We specifically target interactions between children aged 1-2 years and an adult. Such interactions arise naturally in the diagnosis and treatment of developmental disorders such as autism. We introduce a new publicly-available dataset containing over 160 sessions of a 3-5 minute child-adult interaction. In each session, the adult examiner followed a semi-structured play interaction protocol which was designed to elicit a broad range of social behaviors. We identify the key technical challenges in analyzing these behaviors, and describe met…
Developing Phonological Awareness in Blended-learning Language Courses
2013
This study is based on Second Language Acquisition through blended learning and explores the application of new educational technologies in the development of distance education. In particular, the paper focuses on ways to enhance oral, aural, and intercultural skills through learners' engagement, develop authentic social interaction and intercultural awareness in virtual environments and at the same time actively engage the students' powers of perception, communication DQGUHDVRQLQJ��$ �VSHHFKYLVXDOL) DWLRQWHFKQRORJ\ �LVLQWURGXFHG�� VSHFL?FDOO\�WDLO RUHGWR� pronunciation training. It provides relevant and comprehensible visual feedback of all three components of speech: prosody-intonation, …
La représentation du rugby masculin et féminin : une analyse de discours chez les spectateurs
2014
Le but de l'étude présentée est d'analyser les représentations d'unsport typé masculin, le rugby, dans le discours de spectateurs à l'issuede matchs. Le champ théorique renvoie à l'école européenne desreprésentations sociales (Moscovici, 1961) et ses développements entermes de structure stabilisée (Abric, 1994). Il renvoie également auxprésupposés de l'analyse de discours selon Ghiglione (1985). Le corpusest constitué de 120 discours écrits dans les salles réservées auxsupporters ou dans les bars restaurants où ils se retrouvent après lesrencontres, la consigne étant soit de caractériser le rugby masculin soitde caractériser le rugby féminin. La méthode utilisé…