Learning the Meaning of " Um " : Toddlersʼ developing use of speech disfluencies as cues to speakersʼ referential intentions.

s, IAFPA 2010, Department of Phonetics, Trier University, Germany Disfluencies in alcoholized speech S. Barfüßer, F. Schiel Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung Ludwig­Maximilians­Universität, München, Germany {bine|schiel}@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de Introduction and goals The aim of this study is to clarify whether there is a significant difference in the number of disfluencies produced ...

Automatic Detection of Sentence Boundaries, Disfluencies, and Conversational Fillers in Spontaneous Speech

PURPOSE This study investigated the relation among speech-language dissociations, attentional distractibility, and childhood stuttering. METHOD Participants were 82 preschool-age children who stutter (CWS) and 120 who do not stutter (CWNS). Correlation-based statistics (Bates, Appelbaum, Salcedo, Saygin, & Pizzamiglio, 2003) identified dissociations across 5 norm-based speech-language subtest...

This thesis examines disfluencies (e.g., “um”, repeated words, and a variety of forms of self-repair) in the spontaneous speech of adult normal speakers of American English. Despite their prevalence, disfluencies have traditionally been viewed as irregular events and have received little attention. The goal of the thesis is to provide evidence that, on the contrary, disfluencies show remarkably...

The disfluencies inherent in spontaneous speaking and out-of-vocabulary words omnipresent in any transcribed oral utterance by speech recognition, are a real challenge for speech understanding systems. Thus, we propose in this paper, a method for processing disfluencies and out-ofvocabulary words in the context of automatic Arabic speech understanding. Our method based on a robust and partial a...