Estimating speaking rate in spontaneous discourse

Yishan Jiao; Visar Berisha; Ming Tu; Timothy Huston; Julie Liss

doi:10.1109/ACSSC.2015.7421328

Estimating speaking rate in spontaneous discourse

Yishan Jiao, Visar Berisha, Ming Tu, Timothy Huston, Julie Liss

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Abstract

In this paper we consider the problem of estimating the speaking rate directly from the speech waveform. We propose an algorithm that poses the speaking rate estimation problem as a convex optimization problem. In contrast to existing methods, we avoid the more difficult task of detecting individual syllables within the speech signal and we avoid heuristics like thresholding a loudness function. The algorithm was evaluated on the ICSI Switchboard spontaneous speech corpus and a speech corpus obtained from publicly-available interviews on Youtube.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	1189-1192
Number of pages	4
Volume	2016-February
ISBN (Print)	9781467385763
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSSC.2015.7421328
State	Published - Feb 26 2016
Event	49th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2015 - Pacific Grove, United States Duration: Nov 8 2015 → Nov 11 2015

Other

Other	49th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2015
Country	United States
City	Pacific Grove
Period	11/8/15 → 11/11/15

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Computer Networks and Communications
Signal Processing

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Jiao, Y., Berisha, V., Tu, M., Huston, T., & Liss, J. (2016). Estimating speaking rate in spontaneous discourse. In Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (Vol. 2016-February, pp. 1189-1192). [7421328] IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSSC.2015.7421328

Jiao, Y, Berisha, V, Tu, M, Huston, T & Liss, J 2016, Estimating speaking rate in spontaneous discourse. in Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers. vol. 2016-February, 7421328, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1189-1192, 49th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2015, Pacific Grove, United States, 11/8/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSSC.2015.7421328

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