Title :
The Gemination Effect on Consonant and Vowel Duration in Standard Arabic Speech
Author :
Trigui, Aref ; Maraoui, M. ; Zrigui, M.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Sci. of Monastir, UTIC, Monastir, Tunisia
Abstract :
In this paper, we expose the results of an experimental study of acoustic properties of geminated consonants in Arabic language. We aim to determinate the temporal relationship between doubled consonant and the length of the vowel preceding them in a VCCV sequence. We compare these values with those measured for a VCV sequence. The results proved that the duration of simple consonant was sensibly different from the geminated one and same for the duration of the vowel preceding it. This work was undertaken to determinate the consonant duration characteristics to distinguish between a simple consonant and the geminated one in standard Arabic speech recognition.
Keywords :
natural language processing; speech recognition; Arabic language; VCCV sequence; acoustic property; gemination effect; standard Arabic speech recognition; Acoustic measurements; Acoustic noise; Artificial intelligence; Data mining; Distributed computing; Multiple signal classification; Music; Natural languages; Software engineering; Speech recognition; Acoustic analysis; Standard Arabic; duration; gemination; speech recognition;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD), 2010 11th ACIS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7422-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7421-9
DOI :
10.1109/SNPD.2010.26
