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Abstract(s)
This work has the goal of comparing the pause duration in the disfluent speech and normal speech. Disfluency
and normal spontaneous speech was recorded in a context were the subjects had to describe a scene from
each other. The pause determination algorithm is presented. The automatic pause determinations allowed
the measure of percentage of silence along the record of several minutes of speech. The stuttering scale is
used to compare the severity of the subject. As expected, the percentage of speech pauses parameters is
rather different in subjects with and without disfluent speech, but it does not seem that it is proportional to
the severity of the disfluency.
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Keywords
Disfluent speech Stuttering scale Stuttering Stuttered speech Speech pause duration Speech disorder
Citation
Teixeira, João Paulo; Fernandes, Maria Goreti; Costa, Rita Alexandra (2013). Pause duration of disfluent speech. International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare. ISSN 2160-9551. 2:3, p. 62-73