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In an oral-history archive with noisy, elderly and accented speech, signal-to-noise ratio and syllable rate were the two dominant factors explaining the overall word error rate.
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“It was found that the signal-to-noise ratio and syllable rate were two dominant factors in explaining the overall word error rate”
Speech recognition error analysis on the English MALACH corpus, Olivier Siohan et al., Interspeech 2004 (ISCA), 2004, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.21437/Interspeech.2004-171)- What it measures
- The study used the English subset of the MALACH archive.
- What it does not show
- A 2004 recognizer on spontaneous testimony. The ranking of factors is the finding, not the absolute error rate.
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