It was established that the performance of our annotation system [8] is affected by the length of the utterances: the error rate, the CPU-load and the memory requirements tend to increase as the utterances get longer. In this contribution the speech signal is first segmented into speech, pauses and noise (breaths, clicks, : : :) and subsequently split in signal phrases prior to the annotation. Experiments on 3 different databases (3 languages) demonstrate that this stategy yields a significant improvement of the annotation accuracy.
Cite as: Vereecken, H., Vorstermans, A., Martens, J.-P., Coile, B.v. (1997) Improving the phonetic annotation by means of prosodic phrasing. Proc. 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1997), 179-182, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1997-72
@inproceedings{vereecken97_eurospeech,
author={Halewijn Vereecken and Annemie Vorstermans and Jean-Pierre Martens and Bert van Coile},
title={{Improving the phonetic annotation by means of prosodic phrasing}},
year=1997,
booktitle={Proc. 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1997)},
pages={179--182},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1997-72}
}