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The paper describes the implementation of phonetic segmentation using the tools from KALDI toolkit. Its usage is motivated by the big development and support of topical techniques of ASR which are available in KALDI. The presented work is related to the research on pronunciation variability in casual Czech speech. For this purpose we use the automatic phonetic segmentation to analyze the particular phone boundaries, deletions, etc. We also present the tool for pronunciation detection. Both tools can be used for processing large databases as well as for an interactive work within the environment of Praat. Also the illustrative analysis of the segmentation accuracy and the design of new environment for phonetic segmentation in Praat are presented.
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Patc, Z., Mizera, P., Pollak, P. (2015). Phonetic Segmentation Using KALDI and Reduced Pronunciation Detection in Causal Czech Speech. In: Král, P., Matoušek, V. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9302. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24033-6_49
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