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LREC
2008
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RUNDKAST: an Annotated Norwegian Broadcast News Speech Corpus
This paper describes the Norwegian broadcast news speech corpus RUNDKAST. The corpus contains recordings of approximately 77 hours of broadcast news shows from the Norwegian broad...
Ingunn Amdal, Ole Morten Strand, Jørn Almbe...
LREC
2008
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Manual vs Assisted Transcription of Prepared and Spontaneous Speech
Our paper focuses on the gain which can be achieved on human transcription of spontaneous and prepared speech, by using the assistance of an ASR system. This experiment has shown ...
Thierry Bazillon, Yannick Estève, Daniel Lu...
LREC
2008
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Linguistic Resources for Reconstructing Spontaneous Speech Text
The output of a speech recognition system is not always ideal for subsequent downstream processing, in part because speakers themselves often make mistakes. A system would accompl...
Erin Fitzgerald, Frederick Jelinek
LREC
2010
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Comparison of Spectral Properties of Read, Prepared and Casual Speech in French
In this paper, we investigate the acoustic properties of phonemes in three speaking styles: read speech, prepared speech and spontaneous speech. Our aim is to better understand wh...
Jean-Luc Rouas, Mayumi Beppu, Martine Adda-Decker
LREC
2010
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FAU IISAH Corpus -- A German Speech Database Consisting of Human-Machine and Human-Human Interaction Acquired by Close-Talking a
In this paper the FAU IISAH corpus and its recording conditions are described: a new speech database consisting of human-machine and human-human interaction recordings. Beside clo...
Werner Spiegl, Korbinian Riedhammer, Stefan Steidl...
LREC
2010
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The Cambridge Cookie-Theft Corpus: A Corpus of Directed and Spontaneous Speech of Brain-Damaged Patients and Healthy Individuals
Investigating differences in linguistic usage between individuals who have suffered brain injury (hereafter patients) and those who haven't can yield a number of benefits. It...
Caroline Williams, Andrew Thwaites, Paula Buttery,...
COLING
2008
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A Syntactic Time-Series Model for Parsing Fluent and Disfluent Speech
This paper describes an incremental approach to parsing transcribed spontaneous speech containing disfluencies with a Hierarchical Hidden Markov Model (HHMM). This model makes use...
Tim Miller, William Schuler
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
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Robust word boundary detection in spontaneous speech using acoustic and lexical cues
We consider the problem of word boundary detection in spontaneous speech utterances. Acoustic features have been well explored in the literature in the context of word boundary de...
Andreas Tsiartas, Prasanta K. Ghosh, Panayiotis G....
TSD
2005
Springer
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Why Is the Recognition of Spontaneous Speech so Hard?
Although speech, derived from reading texts, and similar types of speech, e.g. that from reading newspapers or that from news broadcast, can be recognized with high accuracy, recog...
Sadaoki Furui, Masanobu Nakamura, Tomohisa Ichiba,...
ICMI
2005
Springer
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Probabilistic grounding of situated speech using plan recognition and reference resolution
Situated, spontaneous speech may be ambiguous along acoustic, lexical, grammatical and semantic dimensions. To understand such a seemingly difficult signal, we propose to model th...
Peter Gorniak, Deb Roy