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2006-08-07
2012-09-22
  • phuong nguyen

    phuong nguyen - 2006-08-07

    Hi,

    I want to do a simple speech segmentation: i.e. write a software to detect the pause/silent between sentences (longer pause than between words).
    I think it would be accurate enough to use "energy" and "zero-crossing rate".
    I found that many literatures link to the paper:
    L. Rabiner and M. Sambur. An Algorithm for Determining the Endpoints of Isolated Utterances, The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 54, No. 2, Feb. 1975, pp. 297--315

    Unfortunately, I could not found a pdf version of that paper.

    Could anyone give me a copy of that paper? Or do you know a better way to do that?

    Thanks,

    Nguyen

     
    • Holger Brandl

      Holger Brandl - 2006-08-07

      Hi Comobile,

      although i don't know where to find the paper you could try to use the sphin4 frontend for energy based segmentation. Just plugin a SpeechMarker after a SpeechClassifier and you're ready to go. (If you don't understand anything read the frontend configuration pages at the sp4-website)

      Holger

       

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