The phrase "a number of utterances" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to multiple spoken or written statements or expressions.
Example: "In the analysis, we examined a number of utterances made during the debate to understand the participants' viewpoints."
Alternatives: "several statements" or "multiple expressions".
Some SGDs have multiple pages of symbols to accommodate a large number of utterances, and thus only a portion of the symbols available are visible at any one time, with the communicator navigating the various pages.
We reject this view, arguing that it misses out on the interpretation of a considerable number of utterances.
Existing works in this area have focussed on trying to recognise a small number of utterances in controlled environments (e.g. digits and alphabets), partially due to the shortage of suitable datasets.
In order to analyze the effect of the non-linearity (Equation 4) on phone recognition rate, small subsets with a random number of utterances from AURORA-4 multi-condition training data are used.
The known systems of communication used by animals, on the other hand, can only express a finite number of utterances that are mostly genetically determined.
Hence a number of randomly chosen utterances from every dialects (i.e., DR1 to DR8) have been concatenated into a single speech recording, adding 2.5 s of silence at the beginning, ending, and junctions of the utterances.
Research has shown that in corporate meetings, "a very low number of utterances are questions — people are mostly telling and not asking".
Let F, M, and Mdatum denote the dimension of the phonotactic feature supervector of an utterance, the number of utterances of training dataset, and the datum dataset, respectively.
Figure 9 Preference scores as a function of the number of utterances used for training.
Numbered circles represent speaker ID, and their locations indicate F-scores as a function of the number of utterances in the training sets.
