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Author : Alessandro Portelli
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231504881
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Text and the Voice written by Alessandro Portelli and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-05 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Text and the Voice
Author : Petra Ragnerstam
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443899003
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Voicing the Text written by Petra Ragnerstam and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is voice so important to us? How does the concept of voice encompass such disparate practices as vocal sound, marks on a page, identity production and the execution of power? With these questions in mind, this book studies voice as both a textual and a bodily phenomenon. By using both drama and film, and by exploring the translation between the two, this study shows that voice can be placed in a grid where the subject, body, language and power interconnect in ways that question established ideas concerning voice – what it is and what it can do. The book investigates how voice, as an expression of the individual subject, is central in the fight for power in plays such as The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman and Ntosake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide, where voice is seen as fundamental for political action. However, it also questions the seemingly failsafe connection between voice and the subject. In Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude, the relation between voice and thought is neither harmonious nor given, and thus voice becomes something other than an expression of subjective interiority. The discussion of Clare Booth’s The Women highlights how voice in ironic discourse disrupts notions of intentionality, subjectivity and power in ways that destabilize preconceived notions of voice. Lastly, the chapter on David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross asks if voice really can empower the subject in an age where processes of reification have invaded the subject’s consciousness, including the ability to communicate.
Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674054458
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Voice and Vision written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has become commonplace these days to speak of “unpacking” texts. Voice and Vision is a book about packing that prose in the first place. While history is scholarship, it is also art—that is, literature. And while it has no need to emulate fiction, slump into memoir, or become self-referential text, its composition does need to be conscious and informed. Voice and Vision is for those who wish to understand the ways in which literary considerations can enhance nonfiction writing. At issue is not whether writing is scholarly or popular, narrative or analytical, but whether it is good. Fiction has guidebooks galore; journalism has shelves stocked with manuals; certain hybrids such as creative nonfiction and the new journalism have evolved standards, esthetics, and justifications for how to transfer the dominant modes of fiction to topics in nonfiction. But history and other serious or scholarly nonfiction have nothing comparable. Now this curious omission is addressed by Stephen Pyne as he analyzes and teaches the craft that undergirds whole realms of nonfiction and book-based academic disciplines. With eminent good sense concerning the unique problems posed by research-based writing and with a wealth of examples from accomplished writers, Pyne, an experienced and skilled writer himself, explores the many ways to understand what makes good nonfiction, and explains how to achieve it. His counsel and guidance will be invaluable to experts as well as novices in the art of writing serious and scholarly nonfiction.
Author : William G. Tierney
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438422148
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Representation and the Text written by William G. Tierney and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1997-07-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on authorial representations of contested reality in qualitative research.This book focuses on representations of contested realities in qualitative research. The authors examine two separate, but interrelated, issues: criticisms of how researchers use "voice," and suggestions about how to develop experimental voices that expand the range of narrative strategies. Changing relationships between researchers and respondents dictate alterations in textual representations--from the "view from nowhere" to the view from a particular location, and from the omniscient voice to the polyvocality of communities of individuals. Examples of new representations and textual experiments provide models for how some authors have struggled with voice in their texts, and in so doing, broaden who they and we mean by "us."
Author : Stephen M. Ross
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820313757
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Fiction's Inexhaustible Voice written by Stephen M. Ross and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Faulkner recognized voice as one of the most distinctive and powerful elements in fiction when he delivered his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, describing the last sound at the end of the world as man's "puny inexhaustible voice, still talking." As a testimonial of an artist's faith in his art, the speech raised the value of voice to its highest reach for man, as "one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail." In Fiction's Inexhaustible Voice, Stephen Ross explores the nature of voice in William Faulkner's fiction by examining the various modes of speech and writing that his texts employ. Beginning with the proposition that voice is deeply involved in the experience of reading Faulkner, Ross uses theoretically grounded notions of voice to propose new ways of explaining how Faulkner's novels and stories express meaning, showing how Faulkner used the affective power of voice to induce the reader to forget the silent and originless nature of written fiction. Ross departs from previous Faulkner criticism by proceeding not text-by-text or chronologically but by construction a workable taxonomy which defines the types of voice in Faulkner's fiction: phenomenal voice, a depicted event or object within the represented fictional world; mimetic voice, the illusion that a person is speaking; psychic voice, one heard only in the mind and overheard only through fiction's omniscience; and oratorical voice, an overtly intertextual voice which derives from a discursive practice--Southern oratory--recognizable outside the boundaries of any Faulkner text and identifiable as part of Faulkner's biographical and regional heritage. In Faulkner's own experience, listening was important. As he once confided to Malcolm Cowley, "I listen to the voices, and when I put down what the voices say, it's right." In Fiction's Inexhaustible Voice, Ross conducts a careful analysis of this fundamental source of power in Faulkner's fiction, concluding that the preponderance of voice imagery, represented talking, verbalized thought, and oratorical rhetoric and posturing makes the novels and stories fundamentally vocal. They derive their energy from the play of voices on the imaginative field of written language.
Author : Nancy Saklad
Publisher : Applause Books
ISBN 13 : 9781617740589
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Voice and Speech Training in the New Millennium written by Nancy Saklad and published by Applause Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOICE AND SPEECH TRAINING IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM: CONVERSATIONS WITH MASTER TEACHERS
Author : Ute Jekosch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540288600
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Voice and Speech Quality Perception written by Ute Jekosch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Voice and Speech Quality Perception starts out with the fundamental question of: "How do listeners perceive voice and speech quality and how can these processes be modeled?" Any quantitative answers require measurements. This is natural for physical quantities but harder to imagine for perceptual measurands. This book approaches the problem by actually identifying major perceptual dimensions of voice and speech quality perception, defining units wherever possible and offering paradigms to position these dimensions into a structural skeleton of perceptual speech and voice quality. The emphasis is placed on voice and speech quality assessment of systems in artificial scenarios. Many scientific fields are involved. This book bridges the gap between two quite diverse fields, engineering and humanities, and establishes the new research area of Voice and Speech Quality Perception.
Author : Kristin Linklater
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559366389
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)
Download or read book Freeing Shakespeare's Voice written by Kristin Linklater and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate exploration of the process of comprehending and speaking the words of William Shakespeare. Detailing exercises and analyzing characters' speech and rhythms, Linklater provides the tools to increase understanding and make Shakespeare's words one's own.
Author : They Call Me Hoz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792977886
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (778 download)
Download or read book Perfect SoloPreneur written by They Call Me Hoz and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote Perfect SoloPreneur to answer the question: how would I become a SoloPreneur if I had to start from scratch all over again? Today, everybody has the opportunity to create a personal brand and become a SoloPreneur or an entrepreneur using mostly free tools on the World Wide Web. But the path is littered with traps, sharks and missing information. If you're hustling to build your own side business - your own digital empire - then you already know about the endless temptations for cool tools and software and the endless monthly subscriptions that are required to run these tools. You know also about the countless motivational videos and tips out there telling us to just go for it, make it happen, etc.In this book, I talk about the things not to fall for and the mindset the SoloPreneur needs to cultivate. I talk about the things to be mindful of when you're building your personal brand and the ways others may try to attack it in future. I talk about the problem with all these motivational videos (they're great to watch and I recommend that you use them to get inspired, but we need to remember context because context is everything.The fact is that today, there is an incredible opportunity for anyone to become a SoloPreneur and build a successful business online in their spare time from their spare room, and every day more people join the laptop lifestyle (aka the Internet lifestyle) and become financially independent. But the idea of achieving online success is being romanticised into a work your b*tt off and it will happen formula (well, those make great videos...)I tried and failed more times than I care to remember and ended up in ugly situations from following a lot of similar advice blindly. I finally got things to work after a lot of effort and backtracking and applying certain rules based on common sense.At the end of that 'little journey' it struck me that is should not have been this hard, and I should not have had to go through so much stress both financially and emotionally. I realised that the reason I made things a lot harder than they need to be is because I followed other people's models without applying any criteria of my own.This book is about the things I've learnt on this journey, and about how I would do this next time, to make it as easy and efficient as possible.Enjoy.HozAbout Hoz:Hoz has worked with clients in 21 countries. He has created 3 physical product brands of his own which he runs to this day as well as a digital marketing agency and a publishing business. Before that he was a touring musician.Recently, Hoz decided to start blogging and vlogging to share his journey with other SoloPreneurs. He's just getting started in the bloggesphere but he brings all his experience and humour with him. He decided to put his hindsight to use and write Perfect SoloPreneur as the blueprint he would have followed if he had to do this whole thing again from scratch. Perfect SoloPreneur is a bird's eye view of what it takes to create digital empires. The premise of the book is a call to action to today's unprecedented opportunity to create a personal brand and generate revenue online working from home or anywhere else and designing the life you want.Q&AsWhat's the difference between a solopreneur and an entrepreneur? Entrepreneurs have teams on whom they rely on to carry out their ideas. SoloPrenerus come up with ideas and then roll up their sleeves and do the work. Because of this limitation, SoloPreneurs have less scale than entrepreneurs - especially those on a budget. This book talks about the most important things SoloPreneurs can leverage to increase their output.
Author : Roberto Pieraccini
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262016850
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Voice in the Machine written by Roberto Pieraccini and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of more than sixty years of successes and failures in developing technologies that allow computers to understand human spoken language. Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey famously featured HAL, a computer with the ability to hold lengthy conversations with his fellow space travelers. More than forty years later, we have advanced computer technology that Kubrick never imagined, but we do not have computers that talk and understand speech as HAL did. Is it a failure of our technology that we have not gotten much further than an automated voice that tells us to "say or press 1"? Or is there something fundamental in human language and speech that we do not yet understand deeply enough to be able to replicate in a computer? In The Voice in the Machine, Roberto Pieraccini examines six decades of work in science and technology to develop computers that can interact with humans using speech and the industry that has arisen around the quest for these technologies. He shows that although the computers today that understand speech may not have HAL's capacity for conversation, they have capabilities that make them usable in many applications today and are on a fast track of improvement and innovation. Pieraccini describes the evolution of speech recognition and speech understanding processes from waveform methods to artificial intelligence approaches to statistical learning and modeling of human speech based on a rigorous mathematical model--specifically, Hidden Markov Models (HMM). He details the development of dialog systems, the ability to produce speech, and the process of bringing talking machines to the market. Finally, he asks a question that only the future can answer: will we end up with HAL-like computers or something completely unexpected?
Author : Rajesh Arumugam
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789135915
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Hands-On Natural Language Processing with Python written by Rajesh Arumugam and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foster your NLP applications with the help of deep learning, NLTK, and TensorFlow Key Features Weave neural networks into linguistic applications across various platforms Perform NLP tasks and train its models using NLTK and TensorFlow Boost your NLP models with strong deep learning architectures such as CNNs and RNNs Book Description Natural language processing (NLP) has found its application in various domains, such as web search, advertisements, and customer services, and with the help of deep learning, we can enhance its performances in these areas. Hands-On Natural Language Processing with Python teaches you how to leverage deep learning models for performing various NLP tasks, along with best practices in dealing with today’s NLP challenges. To begin with, you will understand the core concepts of NLP and deep learning, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), semantic embedding, Word2vec, and more. You will learn how to perform each and every task of NLP using neural networks, in which you will train and deploy neural networks in your NLP applications. You will get accustomed to using RNNs and CNNs in various application areas, such as text classification and sequence labeling, which are essential in the application of sentiment analysis, customer service chatbots, and anomaly detection. You will be equipped with practical knowledge in order to implement deep learning in your linguistic applications using Python's popular deep learning library, TensorFlow. By the end of this book, you will be well versed in building deep learning-backed NLP applications, along with overcoming NLP challenges with best practices developed by domain experts. What you will learn Implement semantic embedding of words to classify and find entities Convert words to vectors by training in order to perform arithmetic operations Train a deep learning model to detect classification of tweets and news Implement a question-answer model with search and RNN models Train models for various text classification datasets using CNN Implement WaveNet a deep generative model for producing a natural-sounding voice Convert voice-to-text and text-to-voice Train a model to convert speech-to-text using DeepSpeech Who this book is for Hands-on Natural Language Processing with Python is for you if you are a developer, machine learning or an NLP engineer who wants to build a deep learning application that leverages NLP techniques. This comprehensive guide is also useful for deep learning users who want to extend their deep learning skills in building NLP applications. All you need is the basics of machine learning and Python to enjoy the book.
Author : Raimonda Modiano
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806931
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Voice, Text, Hypertext written by Raimonda Modiano and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voice, Text, Hypertext illustrates brilliantly why interest in textual studies has grown so dramatically in recent years. For the distinguished authors of these essays, a “text” is more than a document or material object. It is a cultural event, a matrix of decisions, an intricate cultural practice that may focus on religious traditions, modern “underground” literary movements, poetic invention, or the irreducible complexity of cultural politics. Drawing from classical Roman and Indian to modern European traditions, the volume makes clear that to study a text is to study a culture. It also demonstrates the essential importance of heightened textual awareness for contemporary cultural studies and critical theory—and, indeed, for any discipline that studies human culture.
Author : Johnny Payne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780898796933
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Voice and Style written by Johnny Payne and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to develop your own voice as a writer, hone your personal writing style, and create powerful character voices in your fiction.
Author : Frederick Walker Mott
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song written by Frederick Walker Mott and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1910 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Duncan Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Voicing the Text written by Duncan Brown and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ritual songs and stories of the country's earliest inhabitants to the rousing calls to action by anti-apartheid artists, oral poetry has always been an integral part of South Africa's literary and cultural heritage. This book casts fresh light on the richness of this neglected yet vibrant tradition.
Author : Alison Behrman
Publisher : Plural Publishing
ISBN 13 : 163550323X
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Speech and Voice Science, Fourth Edition written by Alison Behrman and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speech and Voice Science, Fourth Edition is the only textbook to provide comprehensive and detailed information on both voice source and vocal tract contributions to speech production. In addition, it is the only textbook to address dialectical and nonnative language differences in vowel and consonant production, bias in perception of speaker identity, and prosody (suprasegmental features) in detail. With the new edition, clinical application is integrated throughout the text. Due to its highly readable writing style being user-friendly for all levels of students, instructors report using this book for a wide variety of courses, including undergraduate and graduate courses in acoustic phonetics, speech science, instrumentation, and voice disorders. Heavily revised and updated, this fourth edition offers multiple new resources for instructors and students to enhance classroom learning and active student participation. At the same time, this text provides flexibility to allow instructors to construct a classroom learning experience that best suits their course objectives. Speech and Voice Science now has an accompanying workbook for students by Alison Behrman and Donald Finan! New to the Fourth Edition: * Sixteen new illustrations and nineteen revised illustrations, many now in color * New coverage of topics related to diversity, including: * Dialectical and nonnative language differences in vowel and consonant production and what makes all of us have an “accent” (Chapter 7—Vowels and Chapter 8—Consonants) * How suprasegmental features are shaped by dialect and accent (Chapter 9—Prosody) * Perception of speaker identity, including race/ethnicity, gender, and accent (Chapter 11– Speech Perception) * Increased focus on clinical application throughout each chapter, including three new sections * Updated Chapter 4 (Breathing) includes enhanced discussion of speech breathing and new accompanying illustrations. * Updated Chapter 10 (Theories of Speech Production) now includes the DIVA Model, motor learning theory, and clinical applications * Updated Chapter 11 (Speech Perception) now includes revised Motor Learning theory, Mirror Neurons, and clinical applications *Expanded guide for students on best practices for studying in Chapter 1(Introduction) Key Features: * A two-color interior to provide increased readability * Heavily illustrated, including color figures, to enhance information provided in the text * Forty-nine spectrogram figures provide increased clarity of key acoustic features of vowels and consonants * Fourteen clinical cases throughout the book to help students apply speech science principles to clinical practice Disclaimer: Please note that ancillary content (such as documents, audio, and video, etc.) may not be included as published in the original print version of this book.
Author : Randy Allen Harris
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080474809
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Voice Interaction Design written by Randy Allen Harris and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the voice on the phone, to the voice on the computer, to the voice from the toaster, speech user interfaces are coming into the mainstream and are here to stay forever. Soundly anchored in HCI, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and social psychology, this supremely practical book is loaded with examples, how-to advice, and design templates. Drawing widely on decades of research—in lexicography, conversation analysis, computational linguistics, and social psychology—author Randy Allen Harris outlines the principles of how people use language interactively, and illustrates every aspect of design work. In the first part of the book, Harris provides a thorough conceptual basis of language in all its relevant aspects, from speech sounds to conversational principles. The second part takes you patiently through the entire process of designing an interactive speech system: from team building to user profiles, to agent design, scripting, and evaluation. This book provides interaction designers with the knowledge and strategies to craft language-based applications the way users will expect them to behave. *Loaded with examples and practical synopses of the best practice. *An ideal combination of conceptual base, practical illustrations, and "how-to" advice—for design and for the entire design process. *Will bring novice voice designers fully up to speed, and give experienced designers a new understanding of the principles underlying human speech interaction, principles from which to improve voice interaction design.
