Extracting information from large data is a challenging task. In this paper, we investigate the link between speech spontaneity levels and speaker roles, and the relevance to use an automatic spontaneous speech characterization as a speaker role identification feature. Applying this automatic spontaneous speech characterization system to a broadcast news corpus containing ten manually labeled s...

This paper describes a new database, called muti-level speech database, for spontaneous speech processing. We designed the database to cover textual and acoustic variations from declarative speech to spontaneous speech. The database is composed of 5 categories which are, in the order of decreasing spontaneity, spontaneous speech, interview, simulated interview, declarative speech with context, ...

Contrary to the informed consensus, time travel implies spontaneity (as distinct from chance) so that time travel can only be of the second kind. ∗A preliminary version of this paper was presented at a Seminar on ‘Reality in Physics and Philosophy,’ S. N. Bose National Centre for the Basic Sciences, Calcutta, 24-25 Feb 1996. †Present address: Centre for Computer Science, MCRP University, 222 M....

To determine the relation of religious behavior to certain areas of personality, such as neuroticism, spontaneity, and worldmindedness, dimensions of personal and religious behavior were isolated by factor analysis and interrelated by canonical analysis. Characteristics of religious behavior and personalityreligion interaction differ among Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Baha'is, and non-affiliat...