Concerning the segmentation and labelling of speech signals

 

   

Segmentation is the division of a speech file into non-overlapping sections corresponding to physical or linguistic units. Labelling is the assignment of physical or linguistic labels to these units. Both segmentation and labelling form a major part of current work in linguistic databases.

 
• Background
• A caveat
• Use of segmented speech databases
• The CRIL conventions
• Manual segmentation
• Automatic and semi-automatic segmentation
• Segmentation and labelling in the VERBMOBIL project