Akira, Hayakawa

Campbell, Nick

Luz, Saturnino

Vogel, Carl

English

The motivation for this paper is to present a way to verify if an utterance within a corpus is pronounced at a fast or slow pace. An alternative method to the well-known Word-Per-Minute (wpm) method for cases where this approach is not applicable. For long segmentations, such as the full introduction section of a speech or presentation, the measurement of wpm is a viable option. For short comparisons of the same single word or multiple syllables, Syllables-Per-Second (sps) is also a viable option. However, when there are multiple short utterances that are frequent in task oriented dialogues or natural free flowing conversation, such as those of the direct Human-to-Human dialogues of the HCRC Map Task corpus or the computer mediated inter-lingual dialogues of the ILMT-s2s corpus, it becomes difficult to obtain a meaningful value for the utterance speech rate. In this paper we explain the method used to provide a alternative speech rate value to the utterance of the ILMT-s2s corpus and the HCRC Map Task corpus.</p

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     Edinburgh Research Explorer                                      Speech rate calculations with short utterancesCitation for published version:Akira, H, Vogel, C, Luz, S & Campbell, N 2018, Speech rate calculations with short utterances: A study froma speech-to-speech, machine translation mediated map task. in H Isahara, B Maegaard, S Piperidis, CCieri, T Declerck, K Hasida, H Mazo, K Choukri, S Goggi, J Mariani, A Moreno, N Calzolari, J Odijk & TTokunaga (eds), LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, European LanguageResources Association (ELRA), pp. 3176-3183, 11th International Conference on Language Resources andEvaluation, LREC 2018, Miyazaki, Japan, 7/05/18.Link:Link to publication record in Edinburgh Research ExplorerDocument Version:Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of recordPublished In:LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and EvaluationGeneral rightsCopyright for the publications made accessible via the Edinburgh Research Explorer is retained by the author(s)and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise andabide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.Take down policyThe University of Edinburgh has made every reasonable effort to ensure that Edinburgh Research Explorercontent complies with UK legislation. If you believe that the public display of this file breaches copyright pleasecontact openaccess@ed.ac.uk providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately andinvestigate your claim.Download date: 06. Nov. 2020

Speech rate calculations with short utterances:A study from a speech-to-speech, machine translation mediated map task

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Speech rate calculations with short utterances:A study from a speech-to-speech, machine translation mediated map task

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