It is crucial that ASR systems can handle the wide range of variations in speech of speakers from different demographic groups, with different speaking styles, and of speakers with (dis)abilities. A potential quality-of-service harm arises when ASR systems do not perform equally well for everyone. ASR …

Even learners with good language ability do not automatically engage in interactional encounters in the foreign language. Affective factors, such as speakers’ willingness to communicate (WTC), self-confidence and enjoyment of oral interaction play an important role in this (e.g. Dewaele & MacIntyre, …

The 5th International CSR Communication Conference was hosted in Stockholm, by the Stockholm School of Economics in September 2019. Scholars and practitioners from all five continents were present at this great event. Alongside with around 60 academic presentations included in the proceedings, the program …

Info Support is een innovatieve kennisorganisatie die zich specialiseert in maatwerksoftware, data solutions, beheer en trainingen. Ze zijn altijd op zoek naar nieuwe business opportunities en medewerkers van de unit zorg zagen een nieuwe ontwikkeling op het gebied van smart speakers en virtuele assistenten. …

Dit verslag behandeld het research- en ontwikkelproces van het automatische EQ en Delay optimalisatie algoritme en het bijbehorende hardware advies. Dit document heeft als doel om informatie te verschaffen over het tot stand komen van het algoritme en het hardware advies. Het doel van dit systeem …

In Luganda, the widest spoken minority language in East African country Uganda, the word for photographs is Ebifananyi. However, ebifananyi does not, contrary to the etymology of the word photographs, relate to light writings. Ebifananyi instead means things that look like something else. Ebifananyi …

This article explores ways to assess interactional performance, and reports on the use of a test format that standardizes the interlocutor’s linguistic and interactional contributions to the exchange. It describes the construction and administration of six scripted speech tasks (instruction-, advice-, …

Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA) is a technology created over two decades ago. EMA enables to acquire spatiotemporal data from sensors placed on the tongue in order to obtain information about the positioning of the tongue, its shape and dynamics during vocalizations of various sounds of human speech. …

Film about the USE conference 2015: a healthy working life in a healthy business with keynote speakers, workshops, presentations and round table discussions.