In the framework of the DIHANA project, we present the acquisition process of a
spontaneous speech dialogue corpus in Spanish. The selected application consists of …

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” …

Aunque los fenómenos de hesitación en el discurso–pausas sonoras y alargamientos–se
han abordado desde diferentes puntos de vista, son escasos los estudios que analizan sus …

Worldwide, bilingualism is the rule rather than the exception, and yet we have surprisingly
little research data on the fluency development of bilingual children, and even less …

Despite a great deal of research effort, disfluency and laughter annotation is still an
unsolved problem, both in terms of consensus for a general applicable system, and in terms …

Previous works in English have revealed that disfluencies follow regular patterns and that
incorporating them into the language model of a speech recognizer leads to lower …

As a result of the increasing miniaturization of electronic circuitry and the corresponding
increase in computational power of embedded systems, the point has been reached where it …

This paper elaborates a proposal for labelling prosodic disfluencies in American English, in
conjunction with the ToBI framework for prosodic labelling. Incorporating disfluency …

This paper analyses the effects of certain oral features on the process of transcription of
spontaneous speech recordings. On the basis of the statistical analysis of the data obtained …

A descriptive study of the prevalence of different types of disfluencies (fragmented words,
restarts and vocalic supports) in spontaneous Spanish is presented based on a hand …