The twenty-five hours of recordings cover different reading styles (radio, advertising and neutral), registers (reading news, formal and informal dialogue), voices (male and female) and languages (central Catalan and standard European Spanish). The recordings were made in high acoustic quality by two profiles of speakers: broadcasting and advertising professionals and native undergraduate students. The corpus comprises two distinct data-sets, a news subcorpus and a dialogue subcorpus, the latter containing either unplanned conversations or task dialogues oriented to a specific goal in the domain of information request (travel information, information request for an exchange university course and information request for a touristic route). The Glissando corpus is a prosodic corpus for Spanish and Catalan which has proved the capabilities of extensive speech corpora for the empirical study of prosody. We need to ask which countries and parts of the world we are including in our research.” (Meekosha, 2011, p. “We need to think very differently about disability studies. The authors hope that this research encourages further study of issues related to AAC for speakers of a language that is not the majority language. Further research is needed to determine the functional intelligibility of these systems. Conclusions from these data may help manufacturers to improve their systems and help give insight into a device’s functional intelligibility for infrequently used words. The authors also provide production accuracy of individual phonemes. For males, Loquendo had a significantly higher accuracy. Results showed that for the female voices, Cepstral had a significantly lower accuracy than the other two voices. Ten native Spanish speakers listened to and selected nonsense words containing a target phoneme from a six-item array displayed on a computer screen. Thus, as an initial step in filling this void, the study presented in this article evaluated the production accuracy of six Western Hemisphere-dialect Spanish speech synthesis voices from three different companies (AT&T, Cepstral, and Loquendo) used in speech-generating devices. A clear example of this is the lack of research of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for Spanish speakers, resulting in inadequate services for this population.

There is a scarcity of research regarding individuals who are members of a linguistic minority and have a disability.

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