Not unlike the 'please' in 'two pints of Guinness, please', it adds no real meaning but simply prevents the utterance from sounding curt, like a demand.
Let denote the transcription of the utterance from speaker.
Unlike the utterance from a normal subject, as shown in Figure 1(c), the vocal fold polyp utterance has pitch perturbation, unclear harmonics, turbulent noise, and voice breaks.
This utterance is extracted from test set A of the Aurora 2 task.
In utterance-based batch processing, we normalize the features of each utterance to zero mean and compute a 100-dimensional i-vector from this utterance.
Only one word separates that utterance from this: "I love the smell of coffee in the morning".
In the utterance selection phase one of the utterances from the predefined list is selected, and in the utterance verification phase it is determined whether this utterance should be passed on to the following stages of the CALL system (error detection, feedback, etc).
If the statement in December was an accidental utterance from a clueless president, this one can only be understood as self-delusion.
Like any new administration, this one will have to adapt to the reality that every utterance from anyone in a position of influence will be amplified and parsed for political meaning.
Before Enron, investors believed every utterance from corporate executives, Wall Street analysts and prestigious accounting firms.
