Frequent or contextually predictable words are often phonetically reduced, ie shortened and
produced with articulatory undershoot. Explanations for phonetic reduction of predictable …

A set of tools to analyze inconsistencies observed in a Cat_ToBI labeling experiment are
presented. We formalize and use the metrics that are commonly used in inconsistency tests …

IPlease remain on the line. Your call is very mperdnus." As odd as this transliteration of
Iimportant to us" may looN in print, the utterance rendered here struck its addressee as …

The performance of English automatic speech recognition systems decreases when
recognizing spontaneous speech mainly due to multiple pronunciation variants in the …

Resum En aquest article es descriu Glissando, un nou corpus anotat per a l'estudi
multidisciplinar de la prosòdia en castellà i català que ha estat desenvolupat en el marc d'un …

This paper aims to compare transcription agreement on nonnative English speech corpus
spoken by Korean learners between native and non-native annotators. Ten non-native …

We have applied the analogy of an older sibling to the relationship of conversational to
empractical speech, precisely because conversation has been virtually the sole focal point …

In an attempt to understand what acoustic/auditory feature sets motivated transcribers
towards certain labeling decisions, I built machine learning models that were capable of …

This report describes a speech corpus based on the “Up” series of documentary films by
director Michael Apted, showing a set of individuals at seven year intervals over a period of …