We use a corpus of spontaneous interview speech to investigate the relationship between the distributional and prosodic characteristics of silent and filled pauses and the intent of an interviewee to deceive an interviewer. Our data suggest that the use of pauses correlates more with truthful than with deceptive speech, and that prosodic features extracted from filled pauses themselves as well ...

Statistics of pauses appearing in Polish as a potential source of biometry information for automatic speaker recognition were described. The usage of three main types of acoustic pauses (silent, filled and breath pauses) and syntactic pauses (punctuation marks in speech transcripts) was investigated quantitatively in three types of spontaneous speech (presentations, simultaneous interpretation ...

Pauses during continuous speech, particularly those that occur within clauses, are thought to reflect the planning of forthcoming verbal output. We used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to examine their neural correlates. Six volunteers were scanned while describing seven Rorschach inkblots, producing 3 min of speech per inkblot. In an event-related design, the level of blood oxygen...

Predicting the location of pauses from text is an important aspect for speech synthesizers. The accuracy of pause prediction can significantly influence both naturalness and intelligibility. Pauses which help listeners to better parse the synthesized speech into meaningful units are deemed to increase naturalness and intelligibility ratings, while pauses in unexpected or incorrect locations can...

A recent controversy has emerged concerning the existence of long pauses, presumably reflecting bistability of membrane potential, in the cerebellar Purkinje cells (PC) of awake animals. It is generally agreed that in the anesthetized animals and in vitro, these cells switch between two stable membrane potential states: a depolarized state (the 'up-state') characterized by continuous firing of ...

Abstract Multiple factors simultaneously interact during the writing process. The effect of these interacting must be considered if is studied as a dynamic and complex process that constantly changes. Based on premise, study aims to determine how interaction between reading medium communicative purpose task affects pauses different stages At same time, it seeks this related writer's competence....

conclusions it was found that the isolated bacteria produced biosurfactants that had a great potential for different industries. results the 3 isolates from cheese, yoghurt and silage were effective against isolated e.coli and could produce biosurfactants. phylogenic relationships of the 3 potential candidates were determined comparing the 16sr dna gene sequences, they were found to be as 3 iso...

Sinus pauses in the setting of supraventricular tachycardia is rare in children. We describe an asymptomatic teen with irregular heart rate detected during an incidental exam who was found to have short runs of a slow ectopic atrial tachycardia on electrocardiogram and prolonged sinus pauses on routine ambulatory ECG. Successful catheter ablation of the ectopic atrial tachycardia led to resolut...

This paper investigates whether inhalation noises are treated as silences in speech communication. A perception experiment revealed differences in pause detection thresholds for breathing pauses and silent pauses. This in turn indicates that breathing pauses are treated differently by the perceptual system, and could potentially carry a communicative function.