Extracting Linguistic Knowledge from Speech: A Study of Stop Realization in 5 Romance Languages (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | voicing alternation phenomena of stops are a common problem in connected speech . phoneticians and phonologists are interested in analyzing phonetic variation . |
| Approach: | They use forced alignment with pronunciation variants and machine learning techniques to examine voicing alternations of stops in Romance languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method enables linguists to use large corpora and speech recognition systems . the results show that voicing alternations occur in all Romance languages . |
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