Exploiting pauses in continuous speech recognition

Authors

  • D. O'Shaughnessy INRS-Telecommun., Quebec Univ., Verdun, Que., Canada

Keywords:

speech recognition, syntactic sentence structure, continuous speech recognition, hesitation phenomena, automatic recognizers, spontaneous speech, spoken utterances, intonation, unfilled pauses, semantic sentence structure

Abstract

A primary application of the study of hesitation phenomena lies in improving the performance of automatic recognizers, given an input of spontaneous speech (e.g., verbal conversions with computer databases). Speech researchers have often expressed interest in exploiting the intonation of spoken utterances in the recognition process, but have been deterred by the complex nature of how intonation (including pauses) relates to the text of an utterance. Even straightforward phenomena such as unfilled pauses (i.e., silence periods-which are generally easy to identify, if long enough) are not reliable indicators to the syntactic or semantic sentence structure of an utterance

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Published

1991-09-01

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O’Shaughnessy D. Exploiting pauses in continuous speech recognition. Canadian Acoustics [Internet]. 1991 Sep. 1 [cited 2025 Feb. 18];19(4):115-6. Available from: https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/696

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 4 (1991)

Section

Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

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