The Concept and Measurement of Speech Rhythm

Fuchs, Robert

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-47818-9_3

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“…Along with speech rate itself, some features such as articulation rate and syllable duration were also investigated. In a syllable-timed language, rhythm and stress are exhibited by the variability of vocalic durations, number of pauses and their durations, intensity, and loudness (Fuchs, 2016). With that, rhythm and stress features were extracted within the syllable detection algorithm.…”

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Prosodic characterisation of children's Filipino read speech for oral reading fluency assessment

Dimzon¹,

Pascual²

2023

IJTEL

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This paper explores the extraction and analysis of prosodic features in children's Filipino speech for application in automated oral reading fluency assessment. Automatic syllabication was optimised in the context of children's Filipino read speech. Using the Children Filipino Speech Corpus, prosodic features were automatically extracted which were then classified according to human rater assessment of fluency. Analysis of variance showed that speech and articulation rates, pauses, syllable duration, and pitch can be used to classify children's oral reading fluency in Filipino into three levels, namely, independent, instructional and frustration. Using machine learning classification methods, fivefold cross-validation showed that speech rate, articulation rate and number of pauses can be used to predict oral reading fluency at 92%, 85% and 76% accuracy for 2, 3 and 4 levels of fluency classification, respectively. Pitch and syllable duration patterns were also characterised for the assessment of phrasing and expression between fluent and non-fluent readers.

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Prosodic characterisation of children's Filipino read speech for oral reading fluency assessment

Dimzon¹,

Pascual²

2023

IJTEL

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“…The distinction between speaker variability and language-dependent rhythmic characteristics is very relevant, as it helps determining the sources and effects of rhythmic variation in speech (Fuchs, 2016). Nonetheless, drawing a clear line between such concepts is not an easy task since they tend to interact and influence each other in complex ways (Mok & Dellwo, 2008).…”

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A corpus study of durational rhythmic measures in the Kalhori variety of Kurdish

Taghva,

Moloodi,

Abolhasanizadeh

et al. 2023

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In order to identify between-sentence and between-speaker variabilities, one of the methods used by phoneticians is studying durational rhythmic features. In the present research, to classify speech rhythm of Kalhori, a variety of Kurdish, and to find out about the most appropriate measures for between-sentence and between-speaker rhythmic variability in Kalhori, durational speech rhythmic measures were analyzed. To this end, two speaking styles (read and spontaneous) were explored. The analysis of the read corpus revealed that Kalhori Kurdish rhythm pattern is between stress-timed and syllable-timed. The results indicated that %V (proportion over which speech is vocalic) was the most significant measure for distinguishing between-sentence rhythmic variability in the read corpus, while %V and rateSyl (syllable rate) were the most efficient measures for identifying the between-speaker rhythmic variability in both the read and spontaneous corpus.

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The Concept and Measurement of Speech Rhythm

Cited by 2 publications

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Prosodic characterisation of children's Filipino read speech for oral reading fluency assessment

Prosodic characterisation of children's Filipino read speech for oral reading fluency assessment

A corpus study of durational rhythmic measures in the Kalhori variety of Kurdish

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