Sarah Cooper

Bangor University, Linguistics & English Language, Faculty Member

Bangor University, Uned Technolegau Iaith, Canolfan Bedwyr, Faculty Member

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GALLU Project (Gwaith Adnabod Lleferydd Uwch): developing speech recognition for Welsh

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Papers by Sarah Cooper

Does Accent Define Identity

by Sarah Cooper and Abbie Hantgan-Sonko

Preliminary results of study examining the effects of foreign accent in multilingual settings.

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Developing further speech recognition resources for Welsh.

by Sarah Cooper and Delyth Prys

This paper reports on ongoing research into developing large-vocabulary continuous speech recogni... more This paper reports on ongoing research into developing large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) for the Welsh language. We address data design issues and the method for data collection using a purposely designed application for mobile devices. We also discuss the application of the data including the design and collection of a small speech corpus to cov- er the commands used to control a robotic arm in Welsh on a Raspberry Pi computer the li- censing of the project and our hopes for the application of the project resources to other lan- guages.

GALLU: Developing speech recognition resources for Welsh.

The intonational encoding of interrogativity in Welsh.

Question and statement intonation in Anglesey Welsh.

Testing for phonetic transfer in two Welsh speaking bilingual communities: Wales and Patagonia

Variation in the acoustics of laterals in Welsh

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Frequency and loudness in overlapping turn onset by Welsh speakers

This paper considers the frequency and loudness of incomings by next-speakers in overlapping con... more This paper considers the frequency and loudness of incomings by next-speakers in overlapping conversation. The speech of Welsh-English bilinguals is examined using a combination of instrumental and impressionistic acoustic analysis. Previous research has found that in some varieties of English, incomings by the next speaker can be designed with high pitch and loud volume. The
conversation analytic approach (CA) attempts to combine a sequential and phonetic analysis of the occurrence of overlapping stretches of speech. The results suggest that it is turn-competitive
incomings by a next-speaker which are designed with high frequency and loud volume and located early in the current-speaker‟s turn. Previous research on English has found these same phonetic design features

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Glossing CHAT files using the Bangor Autoglosser

The Bangor Autoglosser generates gloss tiers for CHAT files automatically, saving valuable transc... more The Bangor Autoglosser generates gloss tiers for CHAT files automatically, saving valuable transcriber time and minimising errors. Using extensive corpora collected by the ESRC Centre for
Research in Bilingualism, we demonstrate levels of coverage and accuracy comparable to output from CLAN MOR (Spanish), and approaching those of manual glossing (Welsh).

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Does Accent Define Identity

by Sarah Cooper and Abbie Hantgan-Sonko

Preliminary results of study examining the effects of foreign accent in multilingual settings.

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Developing further speech recognition resources for Welsh.

by Sarah Cooper and Delyth Prys