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Phonetic Analysis and the Automatic Segmentation and Labeling of Speech Sounds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Peter Roach ,
Helen Roach ,
Andrea Dew  and
Paul Rowlands
Peter Roach
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics & Phonetics, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Helen Roach
Affiliation:
School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Andrea Dew
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics & Phonetics, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Paul Rowlands
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics & Phonetics, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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A fundamentally important practice in phonetics is the analysis of continuous speech into a sequence of discrete segments. There has been considerable debate about the theoretical validity of this practice within classical auditory/kinaesthetic phonetics and in phonology as well as in the context of the acoustic analysis of speech; in recent years the issue has become more widely important as research work in automatic speech processing has resulted in computer algorithms for segmenting speech and assigning phonetic labels to the segments. Work on the automatic segmentation and labeling of speech sounds has been carried on in our department since 1980. This paper begins by examining the theoretical issues involved in segmentation and labeling, then describes our own work.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , July 1990 , pp. 15 - 21
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1990

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