The current speech anti-spoofing countermeasures (CMs) show excellent performance on
specific datasets. However, removing the silence of test speech through Voice Activity …

Les gestes constituent en discours une ressource communicative indissociable du verbal.
Chez l'enfant atteint d'un trouble du langage, il a été montré que l'emploi de gestes a un effet …

The research presented in this thesis deals with so-called “disfluency” phenomena, a topic
of study traditionally concerned with the annotation of a priori “disfluent” forms, such as “uh” …

We present a crosslinguistic study on the interplay of hesitation silences and fillers in
conversation. The research questions have been addressed for English in a previous DiSS …

This paper explores the multifunctional uses of silent pauses, adopting a multimodal
perspective. Pauses are said to serve numerous functions in speech, and this small …

This book pioneers a tridimensional approach to (dis) fluency, evaluating fluency across
three different dimensions, mainly speech, gesture, and interaction. Drawing from an …

This paper offers a preliminary analysis of identical repetitions in terms of frequency,
distribution and temporal patterns in Romanian spontaneous speech. The study in carried …

Pause-internal phonetic particles (PINTs) comprise a variety of phenomena including:
phonetic-acoustic silence, inhalation and exhalation breath noises, filler particles “uh” and …

The study of so-called 'disfluency'phenomena (uh and um, filled and unfilled pauses, self-
repairs and the like) has gained a lot of attention in various fields in linguistics in the past few …

This research presents an analysis of hesitations in Urdu/Hindi semi-spontaneous
dialogues. We annotated and analyzed twenty-five minutes of speech to investigate the …