Phonetic Consequences of Speech Disfluency

Abstract

Unlike read or laboratory speech, spontaneous speech contains high rates of disfluencies (e.g., repetitions, repairs, filled pauses). Such events reflect production problems frequently encountered in everyday conversation. Analyses of American English show that disfluency affects a variety of phonetic aspects of speech, including segment durations, intonation, voice quality, vowel quality, and coarticulation patterns. These effects provide clues about production processes, and can guide methods for disfluency processing in speech recognition applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA451506

Entities

People

  • Elizabeth E. Shriberg

Organizations

  • SRI International

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acoustic Properties
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Automatic
  • Base Lines
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Information Operations
  • Intervals
  • Peak Values
  • Production
  • Recognition
  • Research Facilities
  • Standards
  • Time Intervals
  • Transitions

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  • Educational Psychology
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.

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  • AI & ML