BravoBrava
Mississippi State University
Technology
Conversational Speech
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Conversational speech collected over the telephone contains background
noise, music, fluctuations in the speech rate, laughter, partial words,
hesitations, mouth noises, etc.
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WER has decreased from 100% to 30% in six years
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Laughter
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Singing
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Unintelligible
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Spoonerism
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Background Speech
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No pauses
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Restarts
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Vocalized Noise
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Coinage