Word Duration

Many factors are thought to increase the chances of misrecognizing a word in ASR, including low frequency, nearby disfluencies, short duration, and being at the start of a turn. However, …...

We present results of a novel experiment to in- vestigate speech production in conversational data that links speech rate to information den- sity. We provide the first evidence for an …...

AbstractUnsupervised parsing is a difficult task that infants readily perform. Progress has been made on this task using text-based models, but few computational approaches have considered how infants might benefit …...