Sonority Based Syllable Segmentation
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چکیده
This paper proposes a new method for detecting syllable boundaries. It is based on the sonority and it uses the so-called Sonority Sequencing Principle for the boundary detection. As acoustic correlate of the phonological concept of sonority we use the regularities present in the spectrogram of the signal. By finding the maxima of the sonority function we will be finding the syllable nuclei, while the syllable boundaries are to be found at the minima of the sonority function. Due to the fact that it uses only the information contained in the speech signal it could be implemented, with small modifications, for almost any language.
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