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Segmenting words from natural speech: subsegmental variation in segmental cues.

C Anton Rytting¹, Chris Brew, Eric Fosler-Lussier

¹University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL) and Department of Linguistics, the Ohio State University.

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This study introduces a novel speech representation for word segmentation models, finding that phonetic variability significantly impairs performance. Further research is needed on children's segmentation of variable speech.

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Area of Science:

Computational linguistics
Speech processing
Developmental psychology

Background:

Current word segmentation models rely on transcribed speech, ignoring acoustic variations.
This limits understanding of real-world speech processing.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a speech representation preserving acoustic detail.
To re-evaluate a computational word segmentation model using this representation.
To assess the impact of phonetic variability on model performance.

Main Methods:

Developed a new method for representing speech corpora that retains acoustic information.
Applied this representation to a standard computational model of word segmentation.
Analyzed the model's performance under varying levels of phonetic variability.

Main Results:

Phonetic variability in speech significantly degrades the performance of the computational word segmentation model.
The novel speech representation highlights the model's sensitivity to acoustic nuances.

Conclusions:

Existing computational models may be overly sensitive to phonetic variability.
Future research should investigate children's natural ability to segment phonetically variable speech.
Robustness to phonetic variation is crucial for realistic speech segmentation models.