Formant-based technique for automatic filled-pause detection in spontaneous spoken english

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4857-4860

  Audhkhasi, Kartik ^a   Kandhway, Kundan ^b   Deshmukh, Om D ^b   Verma, Ashish ^b  

^a Univ of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

Author keywords

Filled pause; Fluency evaluation; Spectral features; Vowel lengthening

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; CALL CENTERS; CEPSTRAL; DETECTION ALGORITHM; DETECTION TECHNIQUE; FILLED PAUSE; FLUENCY EVALUATION; MENTAL STATE; RESEARCH PROBLEMS; SPECTRAL FEATURES; VOCAL-TRACTS; VOWEL LENGTHENING;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70349207743     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960719     Document Type: Conference Paper

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