Departmental Papers (CIS)
Date of this Version
3-2010
Document Type
Conference Paper
Recommended Citation
Jiahong Yuan and Mark Liberman, "Robust Speaking Rate Estimation Using Broad Phonetic Class Recognition", . March 2010.
Abstract
Robust speaking rate estimation can be useful in automatic speech recognition and speaker identification, and accurate, automatic measures of speaking rate are also relevant for research in linguistics, psychology, and social sciences. In this study we built a broad phonetic class recognizer for speaking rate estimation. We tested the recognizer on a variety of data sets, including laboratory speech, telephone conversations, foreign accented speech, and speech in different languages, and we found that the recognizer’s estimates are robust under these sources of variation. We also found that the acoustic models of the broad phonetic classes are more robust than those of the monophones for syllable detection.
Keywords
Speaking rate estimation, syllable detection, robustness, broad phonetic class
Date Posted: 12 October 2010
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Suggested Citation:
Yuan, J. and M. Libman. (2010). Robust Speaking Rate Estimation Using Broad Phonetic Class Recognition. 2010 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Dallas, Texas. March 14-19, 2010.
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