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Definition of Fillers and Pauses #28

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ajeevanshgtm7 opened this issue Jul 20, 2022 · 1 comment
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Definition of Fillers and Pauses #28

ajeevanshgtm7 opened this issue Jul 20, 2022 · 1 comment

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@ajeevanshgtm7
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I couldn't find a specific definition for the fillers and pauses parameter in the pipeline or in the docs. Can anyone please explain how this feature is calculated/derived?
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Shahabks commented Aug 17, 2022

The acoustic characteristics of filled pauses include duration, variation of F0 , the height of F0, variability in formants F1 through F3, and overall stability. Filled pauses, in contrast to other syllables, tend to have longer durations, show less F0-variation, have a lower F0, and less F1-F3 variability. Filled pauses tend to be long, stable syllables pronounced at a low pitch. Additionally, filled pauses are usually pronounced as a schwa . For American English the sound of the filled pause may be closer to a mid-open back unrounded vowel ([ʌ]). As far as salient pauses are concerned, an empirical study on human transcripts of the speech recordings showed silent pausing would have a threshold of 250 ms. @ajeevanshgtm7

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