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Table 4 Percent of pauses events denoting full stops and commas for each speaker (P presentations/orations, T translation, R radio interviews)

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

 

Full stops

Commas

Recordings

n_p.

s_p.

f_p.

b_p.

n_p,

s_p,

f_p,

b_p,

P1_5

12

65

24

0

38

49

18

0

P2_5

4

23

73

0

40

45

15

0

P3_3

7

93

0

0

38

63

0

0

P4_1

18

18

0

64

67

17

0

17

P5_2

40

0

20

40

64

9

0

27

P6_1

0

13

13

75

70

20

0

10

P7_1

0

25

25

50

43

21

7

29

P8_1

0

14

29

57

67

17

0

17

P9_1

0

0

67

33

64

18

18

0

P10_1

25

25

25

25

48

43

5

5

P11_5

3

45

0

52

12

22

0

67

P12_4

33

25

3

40

56

24

1

18

Type P

14

34

20

32

44

34

7

16

T1_1

57

14

0

29

71

29

0

0

T2_1

25

25

25

25

57

0

14

29

T3_1

38

50

0

13

75

25

0

0

T4_1

0

45

0

55

38

13

0

50

T5_1

50

13

0

38

63

0

13

25

T6_5

19

13

16

53

51

23

2

25

T7_5

67

6

6

22

49

27

2

22

T8_5

0

25

4

71

28

28

4

40

T9_2

0

33

11

56

38

8

0

54

T10_4

30

19

15

37

61

18

2

18

T11_1

40

0

0

60

46

15

0

38

T12_2

18

12

0

71

32

16

16

37

Type T

25

20

8

47

49

20

4

27

R1_10

47

14

3

36

63

20

2

15

R2_10

12

11

25

53

45

13

18

24

R3_10

36

4

22

39

69

4

14

14

R4_10

30

11

32

27

63

5

9

23

R5_10

33

16

41

10

61

17

11

12

R6_10

44

0

43

14

73

12

8

8

Type R

34

9

17

40

62

12

13

13

All speakers

23 (20)

22 (21)

17 (19)

38 (22)

53 (15)

21 (14)

6 (7)

21 (17)