Sentence examples for utterance length from inspiring English sources

The psycholinguistic theory of communication accommodation accounts for the general observation that participants in conversations tend to converge to one another's communicative behavior: they coordinate in a variety of dimensions including choice of words, syntax, utterance length, pitch and gestures.

Table 1 gives the utterance length distribution of the test data.

In this experiment, we examined the impact of utterance length on language recognition accuracy.

The computational loads in HEQ-MA are directly related to the number of acoustic mean models whereas those in HEQ-FC are dependent upon the utterance length, that is, the number of frames on the given utterance.

At 2 ½ years an age-appropriate version of the MCDI-III was used that contains 100 words to assess the child's productive vocabulary; the scale asks additional questions about how the child combines words into sentences and how they use language to ask questions, and about mean utterance length.

"Southeastern and eastern US states tend to have shorter utterance lengths," they say.

A time alignment algorithm was used to compensate for differences in utterance lengths and misalignments between phonemes.

Figure 10 shows EERs of the parallel frontend system with different test utterance lengths.

Figure 10 EERs of parallel frontend systems of different test utterance lengths.

The general trend is that EER decreases as utterance lengths get longer, with more reliable language recognition results using test segments longer than three seconds.

We demonstrate empirically that to achieve the same reduction in error rate using a better estimated, higher order language model, our technique evaluates fewer utterance-length hypotheses than conventional N-best rescoring by two orders of magnitude.