Prosody - Science topic

Speech prosody remains a neglected linguistic phenomenon that is yet to gain deserving scholastic attention. This study attempts to rouse deserving attention to prosody. It is aimed at describing the critical role of speech prosody in understanding the communicative content of the speaker in speech acts. The study draws insights from John Austin’s...

Reading level fluency is one of the many problems educators are consistently battling The study aimed to establish the efficacy of the audio-guided reading intervention to combat reading difficulties of the grade 8 struggling readers of Baluno National High School for the school year 2022-2023. It sought to investigate the reading level, specifical...

Several studies have been devoted, partly or wholly, to the different uses of the adverb actually. Although there is considerable agreement on the main discourse functions actually can perform, there is little consensus on which subtypes to distinguish, and how these subtypes, and the functions they perform, are related to the formal properties of...

Movie dubbing describes the process of transforming a script into speech that aligns temporally and emotionally with a given movie clip while exemplifying the speaker's voice demonstrated in a short reference audio clip. This task demands the model bridge character performances and complicated prosody structures to build a high-quality video-synchr...

In spoken language, speakers transmit information not only using words, but also via a rich array of non-verbal signals, which include prosody -- the auditory features of speech. However, previous studies have shown that prosodic features exhibit significant redundancy with both past and future words. Here, we examine the time scale of this relatio...

This study examines historical conceptualizations of ‘foreign accent syndrome’ after brain trauma or as an aspect of psychiatric presentations, in addition to comparisons with current conceptualizations. Although classical understanding of aphasias as language disorders developed between 1861 and 1885, descriptions of non-aphasic speech disorders e...

Evidence suggests that carriers of FMR1 mutations (e.g., fragile X syndrome and the FMR1 premutation) may demonstrate specific phenotypic patterns shared with autism (AU), particularly in the domain of pragmatic language, which involves the use of language in social contexts. Such evidence may implicate FMR1, a high-confidence gene associated with...

Music training is widely claimed to enhance nonmusical abilities, yet causal evidence remains inconclusive. Moreover, research tends to focus on cognitive over socioemotional outcomes. In two studies, we investigated whether music training improves emotion recognition in voices and faces among school-aged children. We also examined music-training e...

Infant-directed speech (IDS) is highly rhythmic, and in European languages IDS is dominated by patterns of amplitude modulation (AM) at ~2Hz (reflecting prosody) and ~5Hz (reflecting individual syllables). The rhythm structure of spoken Japanese is thought to differ from European stress-timed and syllable-timed languages, depending on moraic units....

Although substantial research has been conducted on automatic speech assessment models leveraging speech representations derived from self-supervised learning models, the underlying mechanisms remain relatively underexplored. This study investigates the acoustic foundations of automatic speech production skill assessment models for children with co...

Previous research highlighted many factors influencing the variation we find in compound prominence (as in chíld care vs. home phóne), mostly related to semantics (e.g. Bell & Plag, 2012, 2013). However, the nature of this variation remains unclear and raises crucial concerns about the reality and theoretical treatment of the commonly assumed categ...

This study aimed to discover how audiobooks affected the development of the English reading fluency of Seventh grade EFL students at Jordan University School. A quasi-experimental strategy using a two-group pretest-posttest design achieves the study's goals. Over a month, thirty students experienced the opportunity to learn through audiobooks (Expe...

Background Most related research focuses on a single variable of verbal and nonverbal behaviors independently without considering their associations. Therefore, it is important to understand subclinical depression in the entire population. Aims This study investigated the cross-modal co-occurrence of nonverbal behavior with vocal emotions, prosody...

The article explores the influence of ethnicity on the prosody of interjections. The authors focus on the prosodic characteristics of interjections of two ethnic groups (European Americans and African Americans) using the multifunctional computer program PRAAT. Prosodic characteristics such as the fundamental frequency range, tempo, and intensity o...

Prosody has a vital function in speech, structuring a speaker’s intended message for the listener. The superior temporal gyrus (STG) is considered a critical hub for prosody, but the role of earlier auditory regions like Heschl’s gyrus (HG), associated with pitch processing, remains unclear. Using intracerebral recordings in humans and non-human pr...

This study employs a perceptual and an acoustic analysis of a corpus of spontaneous utterances taken from German podcasts on sustainability. The objective is to identify and examine the differences in the perception of prominence between two groups of participants: a group of adult Italian learners of German as a Foreign Language (GFL) and a group...

Prosody underpins various linguistic domains ranging from semantics and syntax to discourse. For instance, prosodic information in the form of lexical stress modifies meanings and, as such, syntactic contexts of words as in Turkish kaz-má “pickaxe” (noun) versus káz-ma “do not dig” (imperative). Likewise, prosody indicates the focused constituent o...

Stød is a laryngeal prosody residing on particular Danish syllables (Fischer-Jørgensen 1989). The distributional rules of stød are exceedingly complex, and especially the prosody of Danish compounds has played a central role in recent theoretical work on the phonology of compounds and prosodic recursion driven by the morphology-phonology interface...

This work proposes an approach that uses a feature space by combining the representation obtained in the unsupervised learning process and manually selected features defining the prosody of the utterances. In the experiments, we used two time-frequency representations (Mel and CQT spectrograms) and EmoDB and RAVDESS databases. As the results show,...

Conversational speech synthesis (CSS) aims to synthesize both contextually appropriate and expressive speech, and considerable efforts have been made to enhance the understanding of conversational context. However, existing CSS systems are limited to deterministic prediction, overlooking the diversity of potential responses. Moreover, they rarely e...

This paper investigates the syntax of vso and vos clauses in Mandar (Austronesian) by leveraging the prosody. This language allows free alternations between vso and vos orders, but phonotactic diagnostics reveal that vso strings are optimally parsed into tight prosodic constituents while vos strings are not. These results converge with syntactic di...

This study examines the risks of relying on artificial intelligence (AI) for learning Arabic language sciences. Many students and researchers increasingly use AI for linguistic study without recognizing its limitations. The research highlights these risks through descriptive, analytical, and applied approaches, testing the Meta application in gramm...

Purpose A rich body of evidence has illuminated the importance of caregivers' use of prosody in facilitating young children's language development. Although caregiver–child shared reading has been repeatedly linked to children's language skills, caregiver prosody during shared reading interactions (i.e., oral reading expressiveness) has been largel...

Questions may be asked with an intent to acquire new information from the recipient (i.e., information-seeking questions) or with the intent to teach (i.e., pedagogical questions). Understanding how the questions' recipients infer the intent of questions is important, because the recipients' inferences have important consequences for reasoning and...

This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of vocal emotion and prosody in individuals with subclinical depression. A total of 70 college students were assigned to either the subclinical group or the control group and participated in a videotaped face-to-face interview. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II-C) and the Patient Health Questi...

One key characteristic of students with autism is communicative dysfunction more specifically with pragmatic skills such as phrasing and syntax. Communication research has indicated a significant group difference between upper elementary grade students with autism and their typically developing peers in expressive phrasing (production of word group...

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This study presents the development and testing of a conversational speech system designed for robots to detect speech biomarkers indicative of cognitive impairments in people living with dementia (PLwD). The system integrates a backend Python WebSocket server and a central core module with a large language model (LLM) fine-tuned for dementia to pr...

Audio deepfakes are increasingly in-differentiable from organic speech, often fooling both authentication systems and human listeners. While many techniques use low-level audio features or optimization black-box model training, focusing on the features that humans use to recognize speech will likely be a more long-term robust approach to detection....

Background: Although hearing loss influences voice characteristics, such changes may be under-recognized during clinical consultations. This systematic review examines voice alterations in adults with post-lingual hearing loss, considering diagnostic and rehabilitative implications. Methods: A comprehensive search of PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scho...

Co-speech gestures are timed to occur with prosodically prominent syllables in several languages. In prior work in Indo-European languages, gestures are found to be attracted to stressed syllables, with gesture apexes preferentially aligning with syllables bearing higher and more dynamic pitch accents. Little research has examined the temporal alig...

Words engender consciousness, and news reporting, as an important medium for the dissemination of discourse, shapes public cognition imperceptibly. As a marginalized group in patriarchal societies, disabled women have received relatively little attention. Therefore, using a corpus-driven critical discourse analysis, this study investigates the over...

At the interface between information structure and prosody, discourse-pragmatic categories are mapped onto prosodic structures and vice versa. The Focus Prominence Rule (FPR), which stipulates that the nuclear stress must fall within the focus domain, is considered one of the cross-linguistically most stable principles governing this mapping. Howev...

Whispering is a common adverse hearing condition. However, it is still unclear whether older adults have more difficulty perceiving emotions in whispered speech, and whether hearing loss contributes to these difficulties. To fill this research gap, we compared emotional prosody perception under phonated and whispered conditions in three groups of p...

This research explores the prosodic realization of quotations or reported speech in personal experience narratives in Spanish spoken in Mexico City. The data is part of the Sociolinguistic Corpus of Mexico City (CSCM), which is integrated into the Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish from Spain and America (PRESEEA). A total of 52 quota...

The attribution of mind to others, either humans or artificial agents, can be conceptualized along two dimensions: experience and agency. These dimensions are crucial in interactions with robots, influencing how they are perceived and treated by humans. Specifically, a higher attribution of agency to robots is associated with greater perceived resp...

Artificial Intelligence has captured the language classrooms all over the world like never before, albeit not without many debates and discussions on the pros and cons. However, there exists some kind of consensus on the many opportunities that AI powered applications offer to the learners. This study concerns itself with the role of Automatic Spee...

Recent progress has been made in detecting early stage dementia entirely through recordings of patient speech. Multimodal speech analysis methods were applied to the PROCESS challenge, which requires participants to use audio recordings of clinical interviews to predict patients as healthy control, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), or dementia and r...

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has been the regnant research area in the domain of Natural Language Processing for the last few decades. Past years’ advancement provides progress in this area of research. The accent of spoken is the prominent factor affecting the performance of ASR. Accent is the pronunciation of a word in a distinct way which...

In contrast with face-to-face conversations, text messages lack important extralinguistic cues such as tone of voice and gestures. We ask how texters are able to communicate the same nuanced social and emotional meaning without access to this rich set of multimodal cues. The current paper expands on previous work examining the role of one particula...

Background/Objectives: Voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology is becoming increasingly common. Recent work indicates that middle-aged to older adults are less able to identify modern AI speech compared to younger adults, but the underlying causes are unclear. Methods: The current study with younger and middle-aged to older adults investigate...

Introduction Recent developments in the field of social cognition have led to a renewed interest in basic and social emotion recognition in early stages of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and FrontoTemporal Dementia (FTD). Despite the growing attention to this issue, only few studies have attempted to investigate emotion recognition using both visual and...

Purpose Previous studies have shown that the planning scope of sentence production is flexible and influenced by a range of linguistic and extralinguistic factors. However, one important aspect that remains underexplored is the role of prosody, a key component of language, in shaping the planning scope. While it has been established that both conce...

Spoken language understanding research to date has generally carried a heavy text perspective. Most datasets are derived from text, which is then subsequently synthesized into speech, and most models typically rely on automatic transcriptions of speech. This is to the detriment of prosody--additional information carried by the speech signal beyond...

Recent advances in text-based large language models (LLMs), particularly in the GPT series and the o1 model, have demonstrated the effectiveness of scaling both training-time and inference-time compute. However, current state-of-the-art TTS systems leveraging LLMs are often multi-stage, requiring separate models (e.g., diffusion models after LLM),...

Over the past century, there have been many accomplishments in the study of the tunes ( diao ) and prosody ( lü ) of medieval ci . Research into the ci tunes is relatively mature and that into ci prosody is slightly less developed, although it has been advancing of late and has generated noteworthy results. Nonetheless, compared with the history an...

Mastering prosody is a different task for adults learning a second language and infants acquiring their first. While prosody crucially aids the process of L1 acquisition, for adult L2 learners it is often considerably challenging. Is it because of an age-related decline in the language-learning ability or because of unfavorable learning conditions?...

In their pioneering work on Urdu/Hindi polar kya, Bhatt and Dayal (2020) propose a new class of question particles, polar question particles. As part of their analysis, the authors also argue that alternative questions (AltQs) in Urdu/Hindi are disjunctions of polar questions (PolQs). However, Bhatt and Dayal’s (2020) foundational work leaves unexp...

Prosodic aspects of speech are crucial for the comprehensibility of L2 speakers, but prosody is rarely targeted in English language lessons. This paper describes an innovative training of English phrasal prosody using participants’ own speech as models in a modified listen-and-repeat paradigm, with their melodic and rhythmic patterns manipulated by...

This research studies the science of prosody and the relationship of language in setting propositional rules as an epistemological study, in an attempt to discover disciplined rules in prosody, just as other sciences have disciplined total and subsidiary rules. , and this is what made it a great authority on the science of Arabic prosody, and how n...

Emotion recognition and cognitive processing are fundamental to social functioning and mental well-being, yet they are often impaired in neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders. This meta-analytic study examines the accuracy of emotion recognition and cognitive processing across various disorders, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), schi...

Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis faces the inherent challenge of producing multiple speech outputs with varying prosody from a single text input. While previous research has addressed this by predicting prosodic information from both text and speech, additional contextual information, such as visual features, remains underutilized. This paper investi...

This paper explores the possibilities of prosody in instrumental music as an analytical tool. Examining some lyrical themes for orchestra or piano from Corelli to Mahler, the information which metre and prosody reveal about a virtual singing and a virtual text is researched. Topic theory and musical rhetoric are taken as indispensable complements t...

Various linguistic models have been developed to systematize language processes and provide a structured framework for understanding the complex network of language production and reception. However, these models have often been developed in isolation fromneurolinguistic research, which continues to provide new insights into the mental processes in...

The present study investigated the role of phrasal prosody in speech segmentation in adult bilingual speakers of two languages with opposite basic word orders: Basque and Spanish (Object-Verb and Verb-Object, respectively). We created a structurally ambiguous artificial language (AL) that allowed two possible parses, mimicking the order characteris...

Studies that examine the semantic proprsody of words in the Qurʾān focus on words with negative or positive meanings as part of their denotations (i.e., core meanings). On the other hand, a few other studies place greater importance on collocates than on concordance lines or the pragmatic function of the phrase where the word occurs. Thus, the aim...

An emphasis on the elements of prosody was crucial for achieving full proficiency in a spoken language. The research focused on prosody, which included components such as stress, intonation, pauses, and mora. This study aimed to evaluate the proficiency of Arabic teachers at Government Aided Religious Schools (SABK) in Selangor, Malaysia, regarding...

The rise-fall-rise (RFR) tune in American English has received numerous theoretical accounts to describe its meaning contribution, with a consistent theme being the relationship between RFR and "higher alternatives." However, Autosegmental-Metrical theory predicts three RFR-shaped tunes which differ in the rising pitch accent used (H*, L+H*, L*+H),...

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In learning vocabulary, synonyms become a big difficulty for Indonesian language learners as a second language, because they have the same or similar semantic meanings. The emergence of the corpus has brought about new research methods for the identification and analysis of synonyms. This study aims to compare semantic collocations and prosody of I...

Topics such as music psychology, music philosophy, classical Western music, classical Türk music, prosody, violin teaching methods, artificial intelligence, music education in Finland, Ageism and consideration for music education, music teachers as classroom leaders, contemporary Türk composers, popular music, stage fright, The Concept of Kitsch, w...

This paper aims to re-examine the problem of the emergence of present-day languages from the specific perspective of the self-domestication account of human evolution. According to this view, our species went through an evolutionary process that parallels the changes experienced by domesticated mammals. Relying on evidence of diverse kind (from pal...

This dissertation focuses on speech rhythm in the context of L2 acquisition and teaching. A novel approach of speech rhythm is proposed: arguments are given in favor of an integrative view reuniting phonological, prosodic, temporal, and fluency aspects. Acoustic correlates are presented and discussed in light of findings from L2 acquisition studies...

The concept of collocation is deeply rooted in modern linguistics, and it is studied extensively. Most studies focused on structure, frequency, and association measures of collocates while other studies focused on semantic prosody and collocation competence. These studies have consistently found that words tend to co-occur within certain parameters...

The scarcity of speaker-annotated far-field speech presents a significant challenge in developing high-performance far-field speaker verification (SV) systems. While data augmentation using large-scale near-field speech has been a common strategy to address this limitation, the mismatch in acoustic environments between near-field and far-field spee...

Affective voice signaling has significant biological and social relevance across various species, and different affective signaling types have emerged through the evolution of voice communication. These types range from basic affective voice bursts and nonverbal affective up to affective intonations superimposed on speech utterances in humans in th...

Speakers consider their listeners and adjust the way they communicate. One well-studied example is the register of infant-directed speech (IDS), which differs acoustically from speech directed to adults. However, little work has explored how parents adjust speech to infants across different contexts. This is important because infants and parents en...

Introduction Assessments are critical in evaluating students' knowledge, skills, and overall academic performance in the field of education. Consider the impact of readability on assessment outcomes as educators seek for fair and accurate evaluations. This chapter dives into readability and how textbooks can be assessed in order to comprehend how d...

By comparing infant-directed speech to spouse- and dog-directed talk, we aimed to investigate how pitch and utterance length are modulated by speakers considering the speech context and the partner’s expected needs and capabilities. We found that mean pitch was modulated in line with the partner’s attentional needs, while pitch range and utterance...

Humans tune in to the native language prosody before they are even born. Prior findings with newborns reported language-specific processing of forward versus backward speech and intonational contours and also indicated language-specific processing of iambic versus trochaic patterns in non-linguistic tone stimuli. The present experiment tested newbo...

Background Phenotyping Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) can be crucial to providing personalized treatment. Several studies have analyzed the use of digital biomarkers to characterize a subject’s behavior, usually obtained from a single modality, such as speech. However, combining several modalities in a single study has not been deeply studied. We aim to...

The aim of this study is to investigate how pragmatic-conceptual representations can be integrated into theories of first language acquisition. Experiment 1, using a sentence–picture judgment task, examined how children (N = 53, aged 4–6 years) used prosody boundaries as cues for a recursive interpretation when the recursive relatives (i.e., SO and...

The H* ~ L + H* pitch accent contrast in English has been a matter of lengthy debate, with some arguing that L + H* is an emphatic version of H* and others that the accents are phonetically and pragmatically distinct. Empirical evidence is inconclusive, possibly because studies do not consider dialectal variation and individual variability. We focu...

Background Phenotyping Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) can be crucial to providing personalized treatment. Several studies have analyzed the use of digital biomarkers to characterize a subject’s behavior, usually obtained from a single modality, such as speech. However, combining several modalities in a single study has not been deeply studied. We aim to...

Purpose: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often show abnormal speech prosody. Tonal languages can pose more difficulties as speakers need to use acoustic cues to make lexical contrasts while encoding the focal function, but the acquisition of speech prosody of non-native languages, especially tonal languages has rarely been investigated...

Noncanonical sentence structures pose comprehension challenges because they require increased cognitive demand. Prosody may partially alleviate this cognitive load. These findings largely stem from behavioral studies, yet physiological measures may reveal additional insights into how cognition is deployed to parse sentences. Pupillometry has been a...

The present study aims to fill the research gap by evaluating published empirical studies and answering the specific research question: Can individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) predict upcoming linguistic information during real-time language comprehension? Following the PRISMA framework, an initial search via PubMed, Web of Science, SCO...

Humans rarely speak without producing co-speech gestures of the hands, head, and other parts of the body. Co-speech gestures are also highly restricted in how they are timed with speech, typically synchronizing with prosodically-prominent syllables. What functional principles underlie this relationship? Here, we examine how the production of co-spe...

This study analyzes the production of complaint acts in both L2 Italian and native Italian. It focuses on examining the relationship between the prosodic indices used by Italian learners and native speakers during the production of complaints, as well as the (socio)pragmatic strategies employed to execute these acts. To this end, a sample of protes...

Our ability to understand other people's emotions is key to a successful social interaction. Studies from various disciplines (Ploog Pell et al. 2009; Frühholz et al. 2014) suggest that prosody is a basic piece to get this success. Identifying all the prosodic features related to emotional states is important for any speaker as part of his or her c...

In recent years, Arabic natural language processing has achieved remarkable advancements, particularly with the advent of large language models that have enhanced the analysis of diverse Arabic texts, including literary and artistic works such as poetry. However, these models encounter specific challenges when dealing with Arabic poetry, which is c...

This study is about enjambments, rejets and contre-rejets in French metrical poetry. No study explains why these constructions are seen as characteristic of poetry. Moreover, the common approach in terms of (mis)alignment between metrical and prosodic or syntactic structure leaves a number of unanswered questions. Why meter is studied only in its r...

This study utilizes Conversational Analysis (CA) theory to examine the discourse and conversational dynamics in the prayers of the Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim (ESOCS) Church, a spiritually vibrant community known for its fervent, linguistically rich prayers. ESOCS prayers are rooted in distinctive traditions that incorporate s...

The goal of this article is to characterize acoustically and compare prosodic focus marking in speech of adults, children under typical language development and children diagnosed with phonological disorders. Speech samples were obtained from an experiment designed to elicit sentences with contrastive focus and neutral sentences. Acoustical analysi...

This paper discusses the word order properties of object nouns and adverbs in Mongolian. As is well known, the accusative case marker appears only sometimes on the object. I review Guntsetseg’s (2016) in depth discussion on differential object marking and pseudo noun incorporation in Mongolian and present some prior work on the prosody of these two...

In recent decades, one of the most important issues that concern the field of education is the representation and reproduction of gender stereotypes in primary language textbooks school. A wealth of research studies the existence of sexist perceptions and gender stereotypes, examining whether these textbooks meet the goals of the educational policy...

This study aims to analyze the role of intonation and rhythm in the production of Arabic utterances by non-native adult learners. in the production of Arabic utterances by non-native adult learners. native speakers. Through an experimental approach, this study examines the effects of prosody training on prosody training on fluency and intelligibili...

This study aimed to evaluate the effects of a 10-week rapid automatized naming (RAN) training intervention on reading fluency and academic intrinsic motivation among Egyptian 5th graders with learning disabilities. A quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test design with follow-up was employed. Thirty-two 5th grade students with LD (aged 11-12) particip...

Resumo: Analisaram-se parâmetros vocais e prosódicos na fala de influenciadores digitais brasileiros transgêneros, por meio de avaliação perceptivo-auditiva e análise acústica para identificar semelhanças e diferenças. Também foram comparados os padrões acústicos de fala entre homens e mulheres transgênero (trans) e cisgênero (cis). Amostras de fal...

Artykuł przedstawia zagadnienie prozodii semantycznej w dyskursie politycznym w ujęciu konfrontatywnym polsko-słowackim. Przedmiotem opisu są jednostki leksykalne mające w określonym kontekście pozytywną lub negatywną prozodię semantyczną. To zjawisko, zidentyfikowane w pracach Louwa (1993) i rozwinięte przez Sinclaira (2003, 2004), polega na nabie...

This research entitled Original and Fundamental Words of Hawrami dialect in Siyachemane Texts that consists two parts. in the first part try to deal with theoretical and historical aspects, and the second part shows the information which obtained from the practical aspect through the researcher’s participation and staying with the research communit...

Introduction. An analysis of fresco inscriptions from different regions of the Byzantine Empire has shown that their spelling may reflect dialectal features. At the same time, the accentuation systems used in them also characterize the author’s style and often vary, combining elements of the Alexandrian, Byzantine, and logical systems. Methods. Cap...

In line with the idea that language has evolved to be efficient and to avoid redundancy, syntactic means of marking information structure have been derived from prosodic ones, and vice versa, for many languages. On the basis of crosslinguistic comparisons, prosody-syntax trade-offs have frequently been described for clefts. The present study invest...

Background. Speech analysis can detect subtle cognitive impairment, particularly because prosody contains fine elements, such as pauses, which might be behavioral markers of NeuroCognitive Disorders. However, the absence of simple, detailed methods compromises the feasibility of such an analysis in clinics. Mild Neurocognitive Disorders (mNCD) refe...

Speaker-adaptive Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis has attracted considerable attention due to its broad range of applications, such as personalized voice assistant services. While several approaches have been proposed, they often exhibit high sensitivity to either the quantity or the quality of target speech samples. To address these limitations, we...