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The Impact of Prosodic Segmentation on Speech Synthesis of Spontaneous Speech
Julio Cesar Galdino, Sidney Evaldo Leal, Leticia Gabriella De Souza +6
Spontaneous speech presents several challenges for speech synthesis, particularly in capturing the natural flow of conversation, including turn-taking, pauses, and disfluencies. Al…
Evaluating OpenAI's Whisper ASR for Punctuation Prediction and Topic Modeling of life histories of the Museum of the Person
Lucas Rafael Stefanel Gris, Ricardo Marcacini, Arnaldo Candido Junior +3
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems play a key role in applications involving human-machine interactions. Despite their importance, ASR models for the Portuguese language pr…
Bringing NURC/SP to Digital Life: the Role of Open-source Automatic Speech Recognition Models
Lucas Rafael Stefanel Gris, Arnaldo Candido Junior, Vinícius G. dos Santos +4
The NURC Project that started in 1969 to study the cultured linguistic urban norm spoken in five Brazilian capitals, was responsible for compiling a large corpus for each capital.…
NILC-Metrix: assessing the complexity of written and spoken language in Brazilian Portuguese
Sidney Evaldo Leal, Magali Sanches Duran, Carolina Evaristo Scarton +2
This paper presents and makes publicly available the NILC-Metrix, a computational system comprising 200 metrics proposed in studies on discourse, psycholinguistics, cognitive and c…
CORAA: a large corpus of spontaneous and prepared speech manually validated for speech recognition in Brazilian Portuguese
Arnaldo Candido Junior, Edresson Casanova, Anderson Soares +8
Automatic Speech recognition (ASR) is a complex and challenging task. In recent years, there have been significant advances in the area. In particular, for the Brazilian Portuguese…