Automatic syllabification of untranscribed speech

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dc.contributor.advisorDu Preez, J. A.en
dc.contributor.authorNel, Pieter Willemen
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Engineering. Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.en
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-27T11:33:20Z
dc.date.available2012-08-27T11:33:20Z
dc.date.issued2005-03
dc.descriptionThesis (MScEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.en
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT: The syllable has been proposed as a unit of automatic speech recognition due to its strong links with human speech production and perception. Recently, it has been proved that incorporating information from syllable-length time-scales into automatic speech recognition improves results in large vocabulary recognition tasks. It was also shown to aid in various language recognition tasks and in foreign accent identification. Therefore, the ability to automatically segment speech into syllables is an important research tool. Where most previous studies employed knowledge-based methods, this study presents a purely statistical method for the automatic syllabification of speech. We introduce the concept of hierarchical hidden Markov model structures and show how these can be used to implement a purely acoustical syllable segmenter based, on general sonority theory, combined with some of the phonotactic constraints found in the English language. The accurate reporting of syllabification results is a problem in the existing literature. We present a well-defined dynamic time warping (DTW) distance measure used for reporting syllabification results. We achieve a token error rate of 20.3% with a 42ms average boundary error on a relatively large set of data. This compares well with previous knowledge-based and statistically- based methods.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die syllabe is voorheen voorgestel as 'n basiese eenheid vir automatiese spraakherkenning weens die sterk verwantwskap wat dit het met spraak produksie en persepsie. Onlangs is dit bewys dat die gebruik van informasie van syllabe-lengte tydskale die resultate verbeter in groot woordeskat herkennings take. Dit is ook bewys dat die gebruik van syllabes automatiese taalherkenning en vreemdetaal aksent herkenning vergemaklik. Dit is daarom belangrik om vir navorsingsdoeleindes syllabes automaties te kan segmenteer. Vorige studies het kennisgebaseerde metodes gebruik om hierdie segmentasie te bewerkstellig. Hierdie studie gebruik 'n suiwer statistiese metode vir die automatiese syllabifikasie van spraak. Ons gebruik die konsep van hierargiese verskuilde Markov model strukture en wys hoe dit gebruik kan word om 'n suiwer akoestiese syllabe segmenteerder te implementeer. Die model word gebou deur dit te baseer op die teorie van sonoriteit asook die fonotaktiese beperkinge teenwoordig in die Engelse taal. Die akkurate voorstelling van syllabifikasie resultate is problematies in die bestaande literatuur. Ons definieer volledig 'n DTW (Dynamic Time Warping) afstands funksie waarmee ons ons syllabifikasie resultate weergee. Ons behaal 'n TER (Token Error Rate) van 20.3% met 'n 42ms gemiddelde grens fout op 'n relatiewe groot stel data. Dit vergelyk goed met vorige kennis-gebaseerde en statisties-gebaseerde metodes.af_ZA
dc.format.extent76 p. : ill.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50285
dc.language.isoen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch Universityen
dc.subjectAutomatic speech recognitionen
dc.subjectSpeech processing systemsen
dc.subjectDissertations -- Electronic engineeringen
dc.titleAutomatic syllabification of untranscribed speechen
dc.typeThesisen
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