DocumentCode :
2997920
Title :
Characterization and modeling of speech-segment durations
Author :
Crystal, Thomas H. ; House, Arthur S.
Author_Institution :
Institute for Defense Analyses, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Volume :
11
fYear :
1986
fDate :
31503
Firstpage :
2791
Lastpage :
2794
Abstract :
Two types of analyses have been performed on the measured durations of recordings produced by six talkers reading two scripts of approximately 300 words each. The texts, the combined visual-auditory marking technique and preliminary results were reported earlier by Crystal & House [2]. The average durations and standard deviations of various classes of speech sounds, as well as individual speech sounds, have been determined and segmental measurements are compared to earlier data and to various pertinent published reports. The histograms of the measured durations of various sounds and categories have been fitted with distributions which are, equivalently, the exit-probability sequence for a Markov chain, or the impulse response of an IIR digital-filter network.
Keywords :
Headphones; Histograms; Liquids; Measurement standards; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Signal processing; Spectrogram; Speech analysis; Standards publication;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE International Conference on ICASSP '86.
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1986.1168564
Filename :
1168564
Link To Document :
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