Sandhi processes in natural and synthetic speech

Abstract

Starting from the naive principle that a text-to-speech system should imitate natural speech äs closely äs possible, the main concern of this project is to make a stocktaking of sandln phenomena in the natural speech of the model Speaker. Next, diphone speech of the model Speaker is evaluated in order to decide which sandln phenomena are and which are not already implicitly present in the diphones. Those that are not implicitly present have to be (explicitly) accounted for by rule in the transcription module MORPHON.

The Role of Nursing Staff Regarding Goal Setting and Achieving in Geriatric Rehabilitation: A Focus Group Study

“…Nursing staff were traditionally more focused on providing comfort in an environment where older people live, as opposed to working within a multidisciplinary team with patients on rehabilitation goals needed to safely return to home. Nursing home managers conclude that there are major differences between long-term care and geriatric rehabilitation with different demands on the professionals involved (Jongenburger, 2019). An increase in the number of registered nurses working in geriatric rehabilitation has been seen (Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd, 2022).…”

Uma visão dinâmica dos processos de apagamento de vogais no português brasileiro

“…(i) As regras de modificação do morfema estão relacionadas com a "estrutura de sílaba", que altera sequências de consoantes e vogais. Em resumo, essa forma de sândi gera sílabas CV regularmente alternadas em detrimento de sequências "estranhas" de apenas consoantes ou vogais através da inserção ou elisão de consoantes como em (1a) para o holandês e em (1b) para o espanhol (Bergman, 1971;Hutchinson, 1974;Jongenburger & van Heuven, 1993).…”

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