Um, one large pizza. A preliminary study of disfluency modelling for improving ASR. Hutchinson, B. & Pereira, C. In DiSS 2001. Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, pages 77–80, 2001.
Um, one large pizza. A preliminary study of disfluency modelling for improving ASR [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
A corpus of spontaneous telephone transactions between call centre operators of a pizza company and its customers is examined for disfluencies (fillers and speech repairs) with the aim of improving automatic speech recognition. From this, a subset of the customer orders is selected as a test set. An architecture is presented which allows filled pauses and repairs to be detected and corrected. A language repair module removes fillers and reparanda and transforms utterances containing them into fluent utterances. An experiment on filled pauses using this module and architecture is then described. A speech recognition grammar for recognising fluent speech is used to provide a baseline. This grammar is then enriched with filled pauses, based on their placement in relation to syntactic boundaries. Evaluation is done at the level of understanding, using a metric on feature structures. Initial results indicate that incorporating filled pauses at syntactic boundaries improves the recognition results for spontaneous continuous speech containing disfluencies.
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	Author = {Hutchinson, Ben and Pereira, Cécile},
	Booktitle = {DiSS 2001. Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech},
	Date = {2001},
	Date-Modified = {2018-05-14 08:03:37 +0000},
	Eventdate = {2001-08-29/2001-08-31},
	Keywords = {conversation, disfluencies, filled pauses, pauses, phonetics, prosody, repairs, speaking styles, speech recognition, speech technology, spontaneous speech, temporal factors},
	Location = {Edinburgh, Scotland, UK},
	Pages = {77--80},
	Title = {Um, one large pizza. A preliminary study of disfluency modelling for improving ASR},
	Url = {http://www.isca-speech.org/archive_open/diss_01/dis1_077.html},
	Year = {2001},
	Abstract = {A corpus of spontaneous telephone transactions between call centre operators of a pizza company and its customers is examined for disfluencies (fillers and speech repairs) with the aim of improving automatic speech recognition. From this, a subset of the customer orders is selected as a test set. An architecture is presented which allows filled pauses and repairs to be detected and corrected. A language repair module removes fillers and reparanda and transforms utterances containing them into fluent utterances. An experiment on filled pauses using this module and architecture is then described. A speech recognition grammar for recognising fluent speech is used to provide a baseline. This grammar is then enriched with filled pauses, based on their placement in relation to syntactic boundaries. Evaluation is done at the level of understanding, using a metric on feature structures. Initial results indicate that incorporating filled pauses at syntactic boundaries improves the recognition results for spontaneous continuous speech containing disfluencies.},
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