ITRW on Adaptation Methods for Speech Recognition August 29-30, 2001 Sophia Antipolis, France

Articulation Rate Measures and Their Relation to Phone Classification in Spontaneous and Read German Speech

Jürgen Trouvain, Jacques Koreman, Attilio Erriquez, and Bettina Braun

Institute of Phonetics, University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany

This paper evaluates articulation rate measures and rate characteristics of read and spontaneous speech on the basis of a manually labelled database for German. The results of phone classification experiments for three different articulation rates only partially confirm our expectations. Phonetic explanations are suggested.

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Bibliographic reference.  Trouvain, Jürgen / Koreman, Jacques / Erriquez, Attilio / Braun, Bettina (2001): "Articulation rate measures and their relation to phone classification in spontaneous and read German speech", In Adaptation-2001, 155-158.