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Area of Science:

  • Speech Processing
  • Acoustic Analysis
  • Signal Processing

Background:

  • Accurate speech rate estimation is crucial for various applications, including speech synthesis and analysis.
  • Previous methods often rely on automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcriptions, limiting their direct applicability.
  • Direct estimation from acoustic features requires robust syllable structure characterization.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a direct speech rate estimation algorithm using only acoustic features.
  • To improve robustness and accuracy compared to existing direct estimation methods.
  • To introduce novel components for enhanced syllable detection and peak identification.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a direct speech rate estimation method based on spectral and temporal signal analysis.
  • Extended spectral subband correlation with temporal correlation and prominent subbands for syllable detection.
  • Incorporated pitch confidence, magnifying windows, and relative peak thresholds for improved robustness.

Main Results:

  • Achieved a correlation coefficient of 0.745 with manual phonetic segmentation ground truth on the Switchboard corpus.
  • Demonstrated a 17% improvement over the best single estimator and an 11% improvement over multi-estimator approaches.
  • Validated an automated parameter learning approach using Monte Carlo simulations and sensitivity analysis.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed direct speech rate estimation method offers significant improvements in accuracy and robustness.
  • The novel algorithmic components effectively address limitations of previous direct estimation techniques.
  • This approach provides a viable alternative for speech rate estimation without requiring ASR transcriptions.