Handling Disfluencies in Spontaneous Language Models

Errors and disfluencies in spoken corpora

“…Stolcke & Shriberg (1996) and Duchateau et al (2003) explore to what extent removing (some) disfluencies from speech may help improve the results of automatic speech recognition. But other studies actually take advantage of disfluencies to enhance the performance of automatic speech recognisers.…”