When spoken language is converted via ASR to a simple stream of words, the timing and pitch patterns are lost. Such patterns (and other related aspects that are ...

A crucial step in processing speech audio data for information extraction, topic detection, or browsing/playback is to segment the input into sentence and topic ...

This work describes a “direct modeling” approach to using prosody in various speech technology tasks that does not involve any hand-labeling or modeling of ...

Prosody-based automatic segmentation of speech into sentences and topics as presented in a similarly called paper by. E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, D. Hakkani-Tür ...

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1 Prosody-Based Automatic Segmentation of Speech into Sentences and Topics Elizabeth Shriberg Andreas Stolcke Speech Technology and Research Laboratory.

We propose a method which does not require model training and utilizes two prosodic cues that are based on ASR output. Boundaries are identified using ...

We present a probabilistic model that uses both prosodic and lexi- cal cues for the automatic segmentation of speech into topic units. ... Text segmentation based ...

The researchers' work on prosody for topic segmentation ... Related Elements: Technical paper "Prosody-Based Automatic Segmentation of Speech into Sentences ...