A SWITCHBOARD FOR ELECTRICAL TESTING

Electrical flash burns due to switchboard explosions in New South Wales--a 9-year experience.

PURPOSE To document the incidence and outcome of flash burns due to electrical switchboard explosions presenting to Concord Hospital Burns Unit, from January 2000 to December 2008. METHODS The Concord Hospital Burns Unit Database was reviewed for admissions due to electrical burns from January 2000 to December 2008. RESULTS There were 119 electrical burns admitted during the study period, 2...

Disfluencies in Switchboard

Disfluencies (“um,” repeats, self-repairs) are prevalent in spontaneous speech, and are relevant to both human speech communication and speech processing by machine. Although disfluencies have commonly been viewed as ‘noisy’ events, results from a large descriptive study indicate that disfluencies show regularities in a number of dimensions [9]. This paper reports selected results on Switchboar...

Resegmentation of SWITCHBOARD

The SWITCHBOARD (SWB) corpus is one of the most important benchmarks for recognition tasks involving large vocabulary conversational speech (LVCSR). The high error rates on SWB are largely attributable to an acoustic model mismatch, the high frequency of poorly articulated monosyllabic words, and large variations in pronunciations. It is imperative to improve the quality of segmentations and tr...

Confidence measures for the SWITCHBOARD database

There is increasing interest in systems which attempt to automate a task or a transaction using speech input and output. To function effectively with imperfect speech recognition, such systems require an estimate of which words in the output from the recogniser are likely to be correct and which can probably be disregarded as incorrect i.e. a confidence-measure for each decoded word. We define ...

Electrical Conductivity Testing