Interactive speech dialogue system using simultaneous understanding

Segmentation of spoken dialogue by interjections, disfluent utterances and pauses

“…Segmentation of conversational speech by these units would be reasonable across various recognition and analysis approaches, though labeling methodologies for smaller unit should dier according to the research purpose. In fact several previous works on spontaneous speech recognition utilize pauses in spontaneous speech or treat inter-pausal phrases and llers as a unit of processing [2,3,4,5,6].…”