Abstract Language models for speech recognition are generally trained on text corpora. Since these corpora do not contain the disfluencies found in natural speech, there is a train/test mismatch when these models are applied to conversational speech. In this work we investigate a language model (LM) designed to model these disfluencies as a syntactic process. By modeling selfcorrections we obta...

This paper reports preliminary results from a study of disfluencies in European Portuguese, based on a corpus of prepared (non-scripted) and spontaneous oral presentations in high school context. We will focus on the contextual distribution and temporal patterns of filled pauses and segmental prolongations, as well as on the way those are rated by listeners. Results suggest that filled pauses a...

This study aims to describe the comparison of following items: (1) form and (2) location speech disfluencies in script-based extemporaneous by BIPA students. research is a qualitative descriptive study. The data impediments speeches students who were captured using listening method then analyzed disappearing technique. results analysis showed that fluency was significantly higher than speech. f...

The automatic evaluation of children’s reading performance by detecting and analyzing errors and disfluencies in speech is an important tool to build automatic reading tutors and to complement the current method of manual evaluations of overall reading ability in schools. A large amount of speech from children reading aloud plentiful in errors and disfluencies is needed to train acoustic, disfl...

Human speech is peppered with ums and uhs, among other signs of hesitation in the planning process. But are these so-called fillers (or filled pauses) intentionally uttered by speakers, or are they side-effects of difficulties in the planning process? And how do listeners respond to them? In the present paper we review evidence concerning the production and comprehension of fillers such as um a...

The conjunctions att ‘that’ and och ‘and’ in Swedish are examined with the goal of finding prosodic and segmental cues distinguishing between their occurrence in fluent and hesitation disfluency contexts (when followed by a pause). Analysis of data indicates the following major tendencies: 1. the mean F0 in the function words does not differ significantly in hesitation and fluent contexts where...

Conversational speech is notably di erent from read speech in several ways, particularly in the presence of dis uencies but also in the frequent use of a small set of words that mark the ow of the discourse. Dis uencies are sometimes viewed as a \problem" in language modeling, where most previous work has focused on written text. In this paper, we take the view that dis uencies provide informat...