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Rhythmic differences between Welsh English and the British standard
Hejná, Michaela ; Volín, Jan (advisor) ; Dušková, Libuše (referee)
The present thesis deals with rhythmic differences between Welsh English and the British Standard. It focuses on the varieties spoken in Cardiff and Aberystwyth in particular. The first part of the theoretical chapter summarises the approaches towards rhythm from the physiological, acoustic, perceptual, and phonological perspectives. The second part provides a basic description of the British Standard, Welsh, and Welsh English. It concerns itself with the existing information related to the subject matter especially as regards Welsh varieties of English. The last, third part, serves as an overview of the most common approaches towards the search of the acoustic correlates of rhythm (%V, ∆C, ∆V, PVI, varco, RR, YARD). The following chapters of the thesis present a material based study of the data obtained for the purposes of the thesis. The segmentation was carried out according to the principles proposed by Machač and Skarnitzl 2009. Rhythm was measured for four respondents for each selected location of Wales. The age span was 35-39 years for the group from Cardiff and 29-39 for that from Aberystwyth. The values measured were compared with the research of Volín and Pollák from 2009, which, among other things, provided the results of the rhythmic values for %V and ∆C for the British Standard on the...
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Interaction of the Metrical and Phonological Aspects of Language Constituting the Rhytm in Poetry
Zindulková, Klára ; Binar, Vladimír (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The chief subject of this work is a detailed description of rhytmical structure of two versifications - accentual-syllabic verse and quantitative verse. Their rhytmical principles are compared to the rhytm of music, in order to find the analogies and differences. The task of the vocalic quantity is closely analyzed and the hypothetic interconnection of both versifications is explained in the next part of the work. Then I return to the theories of J. Král and O. Hostinský, comparing them with the modern metrical theories and mention the possible contribution of these theories to vocal music lyrics creation. Further in the work I concentrate on the connexion of textual and musical element in the vocal music, examining the rhytmical aspects of their interaction, especially the rhytmical effect of word and music accent. The task of pauses in three described rhytmical systems is examined afterwards.
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Speaker identity indicators in the domain of the temporal modulation of the speech signal
Weingartová, Lenka ; Volín, Jan (advisor) ; Machač, Pavel (referee)
AbstractAbstractAbstractAbstract This diploma thesis aims to contribute to the field of speaker recognition in the domain of temporal changes in the speech signal. After a brief introduction into forensic phonetics, it gives an outline of approaches and factors which help or hinder successful recognition. The focus is then shifted to the temporal structure of speech and approaches to its analysis currently in use. The practical section of this thesis consists of an experiment designed to assess the contribution of certain temporal measures to speaker recognition. The variables used here are %V (the proportion of vocalic intervals within a sentence), ΔV and ΔC (the standard deviation of the duration of vocalic/consonantal intervals within a sentence), VarcoV and VarcoC (the previous variables normalised for average interval duration) and the Pairwise Variability Indices, both vocalic and consonantal, raw and normalised. Beside these, another variable is used to capture the local articulation rate and especially final deceleration in the utterances - LAR (the inverse of the distance between successive midpoints of the vocalic intervals). Whereas the first mentioned variables are not very successful in distinguishing the speakers, LAR seems very well suited for capturing speaker idiosyncrasies, although...
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Later and Foreign Works of Josef Mach
Havlátová, Bára ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
The monographic thesis mainly solves poetry and prose of Josef Mach, the Czech writer, journalist and clerk. It watches literary progress of his poetics according to the era context, influenc of places, historical and social events and inspirations of other artists who surrounded him. The work look into the texts and lyrics by a diachronic and synchronic way. The section about his original works is followed by a chapter about translations of several novels, because he acted even on this literary field. Then the general outline of the reception of Mach's personality and works since the time of his life until today. The whole thesis is introduced by Mach's biography to which it returns in many topics because his works have an empiric character and it is closely connected to the life. The object of the thesis is to sum information about all these topics and give it as a base for future expert research.
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Algorithmic Generation of Esthetical Rhytmical Sequences
Mahnert, Jakub ; Klepárník, Petr (referee) ; Beran, Vítězslav (advisor)
The goal of this project is to design and implement a system, suited for proving or disproving the claim that it is possible to generate unique rhythmical sequences, which a human will perceive as aesthetical. In the project, a framework, aiding the design of such algorithms that create rhythmical sequences using composition was implemented. On top of it, several such algorithms were implemented with the notion to test their performance using a custom testing front end solution. From the gained data, the project tries to find correlations between the aspects of the algorithms with the resulting perceived aesthetical value as well as attempt to answer the initial conundrum.
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TOWNHOUSE ON THE WATERFRONT IN PŘEROV
Dostálová, Lea ; Lazarov, Pavel (referee) ; Kratochvíl, Jan (advisor)
CONCEPTION - Different attitude than expected - Attempt to implement a model of so called city house which is already known for centuries in present Přerov. -Attempt to minimalize need number of parking places and their placement only on the groung. SOLUTION A result of the design is polyfunctional complex of five separate houses with following functions: housing (mayority) services, shopping, offices and religious areas.The goal of the solution is to fill up the corner between Brabansko and Malá Dlážka streets properly and avail excellent light conditions (orientation of main street facades is southeastern). With the rhytm and facade division particular objects try to distort strong horizontality of the street line. The corner is accented and thus represents the opposite of close Sokol building.
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Computer-Generated Music
Chmelka, Jakub ; Polok, Lukáš (referee) ; Fapšo, Michal (advisor)
This bachelor´s thesis deals with the problem of music composition by means of computers. The system uses artificial neural networks which learn the regularities of the chosen music genre from the recordings in MIDI format. In addition to the melody, this work places great emphasis on rhythm of newly created compositions. Besides the problem of neural networks, this work deals with the appropriate representation of input data and re-conversion into MIDI format. The system is implemented as a set of scripts mainly in the mathematical software Matlab.
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Visual Editor of Drum Rhythms
Zelený, Martin ; Beran, Vítězslav (referee) ; Herout, Adam (advisor)
This bachelor's thesis is about visual editor of drum rhythms. The editor can make special type of music notation. This notation is used for recording percussion drum rhythms. The editor needs to be user-friendly and effective to use. Recorded notation can be printed directly.
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Information System for Dance Club
Vohradský, Josef ; Stryka, Lukáš (referee) ; Kunc, Michael (advisor)
The subject matter of this work is requirements specification, analysis, concept and implementation of dance club information system. This system has to enable the keeper of the club to correctly organize dance courses and other related actions. It is equipped with editorial system for user-friendly modification of the web presentation. System is platform independent and technologies used are as follows - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL and Apache.
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AutoRapper - Automatic Alignment of Speech with a Rhythm
Poliak, Sebastián ; Glembek, Ondřej (referee) ; Černocký, Jan (advisor)
Tato práce popisuje návrh a implementaci aplikace, která automaticky převádí vstupní řeč na rap. Tento proces je založen na zarovnání řeči s rytmem, které je dosaženo pomocí rozpoznávání fonémù, slabikování a časové modifikáce řeči. Další funkce, jako je hudební podklad a vokální efekt jsou přidány za účelem přiblížení se ke skutečnému rapu. Výsledná aplikace je dostupná jako webová služba pro uživatele.
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