The experiments show that the prompt-dependent recognition front-end achieves better results, but that this front-end is appropriate only if users limit their utterances to those related to the current system prompt.
Even those linguistic items uttered by the adult care-giver could hardly be taken as conveying the semantic value of the utterance to the infant.
No doubt he was giving utterance to just those ideas that would soon appear in his philosophical treatises.
The accuracy of these estimated vocal tract shapes are then evaluated by comparing the formants of the synthetic vowels to the formant trajectories of the natural utterances and to those of previous studies and by a listening experiment that compared the perceptual accuracy and naturalness of synthetic to those of natural speech.
"We save all your utterances to your account so you can see them and delete them.
In "No. 1 Fan Plays Host to Legends of Baseball" (news article, March 31), you compare the odd utterances of President Bush to those of Yogi Berra, the Yankee great.
If the blandness of her public utterances, or phatic questions to those who have come to be ennobled by her ("have you come far?" and so on; Bennett has commoners freaked out when she starts asking them what they've read lately instead) can exasperate, one can expect nothing more from a figurehead, whose expression must remain the same whatever the weather.
We are attuned in everyday conversation not primarily to the sentences we utter to one another, but to the speech acts that those utterances are used to perform: requests, warnings, invitations, promises, apologies, predictions, and the like.
In such cases we coded each utterance according to what the researchers agreed appeared to be its primary perlocution, given its context and the practical implications that those at the board meeting took to follow from it.
I only ask because her public utterances seem to be those of a brilliant comedic invention and I wouldn't be surprised if, a few days from now, she whips off a latex mask and reveals herself to be Sacha Baron Cohen, at work on a new satirical film.
