Structure of pauses in speech in the context of speaker verification and classification of speech type

Igras-Cybulska, Magdalena; Ziółko, Bartosz; Żelasko, Piotr; Witkowski, Marcin

doi:10.1186/s13636-016-0096-7

EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing

Table 1 Explanation of adopted abbreviations

From: Structure of pauses in speech in the context of speaker verification and classification of speech type

Parameter	Description	Parameter	Description
s_p	Silent pause	f₂₉	f_p(m) per minute
f_p(y)	Filled pause “yyy”	f₃₀	% of f_p(m) time in recording
f_p(m)	Filled pause “mmm”	f₃₁	mean f_p(m) duration [ms]
b_p	Breath pause	f₃₂	f_p(m) duration std. dev. [ms]
f₁	s_p ≥ 100 ms per minute	f₃₃	f_p(m) duration .25 quantile [ms]
f₂	% of s_p time in recording	f₃₄	f_p(m) duration median [ms]
f₃	mean s_p duration [ms]	f₃₅	f_p(m) duration .75 quantile [ms]
f₄	s_p duration std. dev. [ms]	f₃₆	b_p per minute
f₅	s_p duration .25 quantile [ms]	f₃₇	% of b_p time in recording
f₆	s_p duration median [ms]	f₃₈	mean b_p duration [ms]
f₇	s_p duration .75 quantile [ms]	f₃₉	b_p duration std. dev. [ms]
f₈	s_p ≥ 150 ms per minute	f₄₀	b_p duration .25 quantile [ms]
f₉	% of s_p time in recording	f₄₁	b_p duration median [ms]
f₁₀	mean s_p duration [ms]	f₄₂	b_p duration .75 quantile [ms]
f₁₁	s_p duration std. dev. [ms]	f₄₃	#w/min - number of words per minute
f₁₂	s_p duration .25 quantile [ms]	f₄₄	#./min - number of sentence per minute
f₁₃	s_p duration median [ms]	f₄₅	Mean sentence duration [s]
f₁₄	s_p duration .75 quantile [ms]	f₄₆	#w/sent - number of words in sentence
f₁₅	s_p ≥ 200 ms per minute	f₄₇	#,/sent - number of phrases per minute
f₁₆	% of s_p time in recording	f₄₈	Mean phrase duration [s]
f₁₇	mean s_p duration [ms]	f₄₉	#w/phr - number of words per phrase
f₁₈	s_p duration std. dev. [ms]	f₅₀	% of full stops correlated with n_p
f₁₉	s_p duration .25 quantile [ms]	f₅₁	% of full stops correlated with s_p
f₂₀	s_p duration median [ms]	f₅₂	% of full stops correlated with f_p
f₂₁	s_p duration .75 quantile [ms]	f₅₃	% of full stops correlated with b_p
f₂₂	f_p(y) per minute	f₅₄	% of commas correlated with n_p
f₂₃	% of f_p(y) time in recording	f₅₅	% of commas correlated with s_p
f₂₄	mean f_p(y) duration [ms]	f₅₆	% of commas correlated with f_p
f₂₅	f_p(y) duration std. dev. [ms]	f₅₇	% of commas correlated with b_p
f₂₆	f_p(y) duration .25 quantile [ms]
f₂₇	f_p(y) duration median [ms]
f₂₈	f_p(y) duration .75 quantile [ms]

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