Disfluency is a common occurrence in speech and is generally thought to be related to difficulty in the production system. One unexplored issue is the extent to which inhibition is required to prevent incorrect speech plans from being articulated. Therefore, we examined disfluency production in participants with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which is linked to deficits in inh...

The main problems of a conversational Russian speech recognition system development are variability of pronunciation, free word-order in sentences and presence of speech disfluencies. In the paper, pronunciation variability is modeled by creation of multiple word transcriptions. A syntacticstatistical language model that takes into account long-distant word dependencies is proposed for Russian ...

Research has demonstrated that deception is more cognitively demanding than truthful communication. Furthermore, evidence suggests when put under certain cognitive constraints interlocutors exhibit more disfluencies during production planning. One common emotion regulation strategy involving deception is emotion suppression. Recent research indicated emotion suppression can lead to maladaptive ...

Disfluencies occur frequently in spontaneous speech. Detection and correction of disfluencies can make automatic speech recognition transcripts more readable for human readers, and can aid downstream processing by machine. This work investigates a number of knowledge sources for disfluency detection, including acoustic-prosodic features, a language model (LM) to account for repetition patterns,...

Recent accounts of stuttering [7], [15] consider disfluencies the result of an interaction between speech planning and selfmonitoring, emphasizing the continuity between errors made in everyday speech and those made by people who stutter. On Vasic & Wijnen’s [14], [15] account, the monitor is hypervigilant for upcoming problems and interrupts and restarts the speech signal, resulting in disflue...

As [1]’s model of speech production suggests, speakers sense upcoming difficulties and can correct them before uttering. A reasonable strategy to bridge resulting gaps is to prolong the words in the articulatory buffer [2]. This often buys enough time to correct the issue, resulting in standalone disfluent lengthening, after which fluency is resumed [3]. In case of more severe difficulties, the...

Spontaneous speech is full of acoustic disfluencies that rarely appear in read or laboratory speech. A very simple and straightforward approach is presented, in which acoustic disfluences are modelled by augmenting the inventory of sublexical units, which originally consisted of 23 context independent phones plus a special unit for silent pauses. This set was augmented with 12 additional units ...

This research characterizes the spontaneous spoken disfluencies typical of human-computer interaction, and presents a predictive model accounting for their occurrence. Data were collected during three empirical studies in which people spoke or wrote to a highly interactive simulated system. The studies involved within-subject factorial designs in which input modality and presentation format wer...

This research is motivated by a phenomenon that often found when students speak English. can be in spontaneous speech, the researcher wants to know and describe non-fluency speech used fourth semester English at UIN FAS Bengkulu. The form of qualitative descriptive. It has object Researchers collected data several steps; first, he gave topic students, second were instructed given topic, next ti...