TR-IT-0050 :March 1994

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A Study of Pauses as Phrase Demarcators for Processing Spontaneous Speech

Abstract:In investigating syntactic constraints for spontaneous speech recognition in the framework of speech translation, we propose pauses as phrase demarcators and interpausal phrases as basic processing units. We report a survey of two kinds of spontaneous speech data to investigate pausal phenomena and its application to speech recognition.