"blind" Speech Segmentation: Automatic Segmentation of Speech without Linguistic Knowledge
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چکیده
A new automatic speech segmentation procedure, called the \Blind" speech segmentation, is presented. This procedure allows a speech sample to be segmented into sub-word units without the knowledge of any linguistic information (such as, orthographic or phonetic transcription). Hence, this procedure involves nding the optimal number of sub-word segments in the given speech sample, before locating the sub-word segment boundaries.
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