The Effect of Listener Accent Background on Accent Perception and Comprehension

Variability of speaker accent is a challenge for effective human communication as well as speech technology including automatic speech recognition and accent identification. The motivation of this study is to contribute to a deeper understanding of accent variation across speakers from a cognitive p...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: John H. L. Hansen, Ayako Ikeno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2007-11-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/76030