Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Landmark Detection(also: Acoustic Landmark Detection, Stevens Landmark Theory)
- Landmark detection is a speech analysis method based on Kenneth Stevens' acoustic model of speech production, which identifies perceptually significant points in the acoustic signal where listeners extract information about underlying distinctive features. Three primary landmark…
- Landmark Theory(also: Stevens Landmark Theory)
- A theoretical framework in speech science developed by Kenneth N. Stevens proposing that listeners extract phonetic information from acoustically abrupt events called landmarks in the speech signal. Landmarks mark points of rapid spectral change — such as the release of a stop…
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