continuous speech

collocation in English

meaningsofcontinuousandspeech

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continuous
adjective
uk
/kənˈtɪn.ju.əs/
us
/kənˈtɪn.ju.əs/
without a pause ...
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speech
noun
uk
/spiːtʃ/
us
/spiːtʃ/
the ability to talk, the activity of talking, or a piece of ...
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(Definition ofcontinuousandspeechfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Processing interactions and lexical access during word recognition incontinuousspeech.
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The tasks that require the decision nodes, however, are a valuable source of data aboutcontinuousspeechrecognition.
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All recognizers arecontinuousspeechrecognizers and are based on statistical language models and orthographic and phonetic lexicons.
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We generally perceivecontinuousspeechas a meaningful sequence of words, the visual environment as composed of persons and objects, and so on.
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These measures were based on the first 15 minutes ofcontinuousspeechin each transcript.
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Even though rapid progress has been made in large vocabularycontinuousspeechrecognition, many outstanding problems still remain to be resolved, for instance inter-speaker variability.
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There are no silences between words incontinuousspeechthat serve to separate lexical tokens as do spaces on the printed page.
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The project has been running since 1984 and was designed to provide high-quality samples ofcontinuousspeechwhich could be used in speech synthesis.
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Except for the initial entry of a search concept,continuousspeechis used for all user inputs in our interface.
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When listening to speech, speakers of a language are able to segment the nearlycontinuousspeechsignal into discrete elements.
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An experimental study of the classification of sounds incontinuousspeechaccording to their distribution in the formant 1-formant 2 plane.
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While this variability could make the task of processing words incontinuousspeechmore challenging, other features might work in the opposite direction.
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Reaction time to phoneme targets as a function of rhythmic cues incontinuousspeech.
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But is error-free, maximally optimal processing an accurate characterization of processingcontinuousspeech?
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During the production ofcontinuousspeech, patients with formal thought disorder showed a reversed laterality of activation in the superior temporal cortex.
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In this mode, the user is able to usecontinuousspeech.
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