scholarly journals Modeling of Filled Pauses and Onomatopoeas for Spontaneous Speech Recognition

10.5772/10111 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Zgank ◽  
Mirjam Sepesy
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Filled Pauses

Combinations of various language model technologies including data expansion and adaptation in spontaneous speech recognition

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryo Masumura ◽  
Taichi Asami ◽  
Takanobu Oba ◽  
Hirokazu Masataki ◽  
Sumitaka Sakauchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Data Expansion

The effect of cognitive load on temporal and disfluency patterns of speech

Target ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 482-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judit Bóna ◽  
Mária Bakti
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Rate Ratio ◽  
Speech Rate ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Articulation Rate ◽  
Temporal Characteristics ◽  
Filled Pauses ◽  
Whole Word ◽  
Consecutive Interpreting ◽  
The Continuum

Abstract This paper investigates how variation in the complexity of speech tasks is reflected in the temporal characteristics and disfluency patterns of speech. We examined temporal characteristics (speech rate, global articulation rate, ratio of pauses, frequency of pauses, and mean duration of pauses) and disfluency markers (overall frequency of disfluencies; frequency of filled pauses, filler words, whole-word repetitions, part-word repetitions, broken words, prolonged sounds, and revisions; frequency of disfluency clusters) in four speech production tasks (consecutive interpreting, sight translation, spontaneous speech and extemporaneous speech) with twelve speakers. Our hypothesis, according to which the examined parameters will differ across the four tasks, was partly confirmed by the data; even though not all speech tasks differed significantly in all the examined parameters, our investigation revealed that there were significant differences between some tasks in four parameters, and between others in nine out of the fourteen parameters examined. Our data also suggest that in terms of the temporal characteristics and disfluency markers examined, the four tasks can be represented on a continuum based on the cognitive load associated with each task. At one end of the continuum and generating the least cognitive load is spontaneous speech, and at the other, generating the most cognitive load, is sight translation.

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