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Pause Duration of Disfluent Speech

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  • João Paulo Teixeira

    (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal)

  • Maria Goreti Fernandes

    (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal)

  • Rita Alexandra Costa

    (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal)

Abstract

This work has the goal of comparing the pause duration in the disfluent speech and normal speech. Disfluency and normal spontaneous speech was recorded in a context were the subjects had to describe a scene from each other. The pause determination algorithm is presented. The automatic pause determinations allowed the measure of percentage of silence along the record of several minutes of speech. The stuttering scale is used to compare the severity of the subject. As expected, the percentage of speech pauses parameters is rather different in subjects with and without disfluent speech, but it does not seem that it is proportional to the severity of the disfluency.

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  • João Paulo Teixeira & Maria Goreti Fernandes & Rita Alexandra Costa, 2013. "Pause Duration of Disfluent Speech," International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare (IJRQEH), IGI Global, vol. 2(3), pages 62-73, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jrqeh0:v:2:y:2013:i:3:p:62-73
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