Assessing acoustic reduction: Exploiting local structure in speech
Ten Bosch, L., Hämäläinen, A., & Ernestus, M.
(2011). Assessing acoustic reduction: Exploiting local structure in speech. In
Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2011), Florence, Italy (pp. 2665-2668).
This paper presents a method to quantify the spectral
characteristics of reduction in speech. Hämäläinen et al.
(2009) proposes a measure of spectral reduction which is able
to predict a substantial amount of the variation in duration that
linguistically motivated variables do not account for. In this
paper, we continue studying acoustic reduction in speech by
developing a new acoustic measure of reduction, based on
local manifold structure in speech. We show that this measure
yields significantly improved statistical models for predicting
variation in duration.
Publication type
Proceedings paper
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