Title :
A fast and reliable rate of speech detector
Author :
Verhasselt, J.P. ; Martens, Jean-Pierre
Author_Institution :
ELIS, Ghent Univ., Belgium
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a new rate-of-speech (ROS) detector that operates independently from the recognition process. This detector is evaluated on the TIMIT corpus and positioned with respect to other ROS detectors. The ROS estimate is subsequently used to compensate for the effects of unusual speech rates on continuous speech recognition. We report on results obtained with two ROS compensation techniques on a speaker-independent acoustic-phonetic decoding task
Keywords :
compensation; decoding; reliability; sensors; speech processing; speech recognition; speech recognition equipment; TIMIT corpus; continuous speech recognition; speaker-independent acoustic-phonetic decoding task; speech rate compensation techniques; speech rate detector; Acoustic signal detection; Automatic speech recognition; Decoding; Detectors; Energy measurement; Hidden Markov models; Loudspeakers; Multilayer perceptrons; Speech recognition;
Conference_Titel :
Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3555-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607256
