The reported study aims at increasing our understanding of spontaneous speech-related phenomena from sibling corpora of speech and orthographic transcriptions at various levels of elaboration. It makes use of 9 hours of French broadcast interview archives, involving 10 journalists and 10 personalities from political or civil society. First we considered press-oriented transcripts, where most of...

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) outputs often contain various disfluencies. It is necessary to remove these disfluencies before processing downstream tasks. In this paper, an efficient disfluency detection approach based on right-to-left transitionbased parsing is proposed, which can efficiently identify disfluencies and keep ASR outputs grammatical. Our method exploits a global view to capt...

Disfluencies are intrinsic in spontaneous speech. Although it is known that there is a wide range of frequencies and types of disfluencies among speech, little is known about factors affecting speakers choice of disfluency types. We first conducted a correspondence analysis using ratios of seven types of fillers, and other disfluencies, in 174 presentations and quantified the data. We conducted...

The aim of this study is to elaborate a disfluent speech model by comparing different types of audio transcripts. The study makes use of 10 hours of French radio interview archives, involving journalists and personalities from political or civil society. A first type of transcripts is press-oriented where most disfluencies are discarded. For 10% of the corpus, we produced exact audio transcript...

Unrehearsed spoken language often contains disfluencies. In order to correctly interpret a spoken utterance, any such disfluencies must be identified and removed or otherwise dealt with. Operating on transcripts of speech which contain disfluencies, we study the effect of language model and loss function on the performance of a linear reranker that rescores the 25-best output of a noisychannel ...

Speech disfluencies have been studied as clues to human speech production mechanisms. Major constituents are assumed to be principal units of planning and disfluencies are claimed to occur when speakers have some trouble in planning such units. We tested two hypotheses about the probability of disfluencies by examining the ratios of filled pauses (fillers) at sentence and clause boundaries: 1) ...

Abstract To writing anything on a keyboard at all requires us to know first what type, then activate motor programmes for finger movements, and execute these. An interruption in the information flow any of these stages leads disfluencies. capture this combination fluent typing hesitations, researchers calculate different measures from keystroke-latency data—such as mean inter-keystroke interval...

Natural conversations often involve disfluencies in the form of revisions, repetitions, interjections, filled pauses and such. This paper focuses on word/phrase repetitions and revisions that are lexically well formed. These are generally captured by an ASR but pose problems to downstream processing such as spoken language translation (SLT). We describe a system to identify such word level disf...

Nowadays read speech recognition already works pretty well, but the recognition of spontaneous speech is much more problematic. There are plenty of reasons for this, and we hypothesize that one of them is the regular occurrence of disfluencies in spontaneous speech. Disfluencies disrupt the normal course of the sentence and when for instance word interruptions are concerned, they also give rise...

Disfluencies repetitions and reformulations midsentence in normal spontaneous speech are problematic for both psychological and computational models of speech understanding. Much effort is being applied to finding ways of adapting computational systems to detect and delete disfluencies. The input to such systems is usually an accurate transcription. We present results of an experiment in which ...