Centre for Language and Communication Studies: Recent submissions
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Integrating a voice analysis-synthesis system with a TTS framework for controlling affect and speaker identity
(2021)This paper reports an experiment exploring how a voice analysis-synthesis system, GlórCáil, can be used to add expressiveness to the synthetic voice in text-to-speech (TTS) systems. This implementation focuses on the Irish ... -
Cross-language differences in how voice quality and f0 contours map to affect
(2018)The relationship between prosody and perceived affect involves multiple variables. This paper explores the interplay of three: voice quality, f0 contour, and the hearer's language background. Perception tests were conducted ... -
Students' views and experiences of the training and use of phonetic transcription in speech and language therapy: the Irish perspective
(2021)Phonetic transcription is an essential skill for a practising speech and language therapist (SLT) required during the assessment, diagnosis and management of clients with speech difficulties. It is vital that appropriate ... -
Measuring vocal fatigue in sports coaches
(2017)Objective: This study explores the immediate impact of prolonged voice use by professional sports coaches. Method: Speech samples including sustained phonation of vowel /a/ and a short read passage were collected from two ... -
GlóRí - the glottal research instrument
(2014)This papers presents GlóRí - the glottal research instrument. GlóRí is a speech analysis interface which offers a flexibility and multiplicity of approaches to voice analysis. The system allows for fully automatic processing, ... -
The distribution of pitch patterns and communicative types in speech chunks preceding pauses and gaps
(2014)As part of a broader study of voice prosody in speech communication, this paper looks at intonation in turn-taking. It examines the distribution of pitch patterns and communicative types in the interpausal units (IPUs) ... -
Access to employment for deaf graduates, employees and jobseeking signers: findings from the DESIGNS project
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Approved communication support for deaf patients in Ireland during COVID-1
(European Union of the Deaf, 2021) -
The LF Model in the Frequency Domain for Glottal Airflow Modelling without Aliasing Distortion
(2021)Many of the commonly used voice source models are based on piecewise elementary functions defined in the time domain. The discrete-time implementation of such models generally causes aliasing distortion, ... -
Hidden Histories: Deaf Lives Ireland
(Interesource Ltd, 2012)This important project represents the first structured opportunity to train Deaf community members as community archivists in the Republic of Ireland. It has successfully brought together a mixed group of Irish ... -
ICE on Food: Talk related to foodways in the International Corpus of English
(2015)The frequency of occurrence of food verbs across ICE corpora is remarkably consistent, though ICE-CN is remarkably lower Food verbs favour light verbs, with decreasing frequency accounted for by semantic features: manner ... -
The Envoys of Phywa to Dmu (PT 126)
(2021)New are the texts which offer a glimpse into Tibet’s religious traditions as they existed before the adoption of Buddhism as the state religion in 762. With the exception of stone inscriptions the earliest extant ... -
Scholarship on Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) languages of South East Asia
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2021)The spread of the Trans-Himalayan family¹ naturally paid no attention to 21st century political boundaries. The family includes languages with a geographic range from Balti Tibetan in Pakistan to Hokkien Chinese in ... -
Defining meaningful units. Challenges in sign segmentation and segment-meaning mapping
(Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2021)This paper addresses the tasks of sign segmentation and segment-meaning mapping in the con- text of sign language (SL) recognition. It aims to give an overview of the linguistic properties of SL, such as coarticulation and ... -
Predicting dual-language literacy attainment in Irish-English bilinguals: language-specific and language-universal contributions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2021)This thesis focuses on dual-language literacy attainment and has three main aims. The first is to examine various predictors of early literacy attainment in Irish and English – phonemic awareness, rapid automatised naming ... -
A Complexity Theory approach to collaborative language learning
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2016)This dissertation brings complexity theory to the investigation of collaborative language learning. The broad aims of the PhD are two-fold - firstly, to understand more about the process of collaboration, and how it affects ...
