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Automatic Speech Interruption Detection: Analysis, Corpus, and System

Martin Lebourdais, Marie Tahon, Antoine Laurent, Sylvain Meignier


Abstract
Interruption detection is a new yet challenging task in the field of speech processing. This article presents a comprehensive study on automatic speech interruption detection, from the definition of this task, the assembly of a specialized corpus, and the development of an initial baseline system. We provide three main contributions: Firstly, we define the task, taking into account the nuanced nature of interruptions within spontaneous conversations. Secondly, we introduce a new corpus of conversational data, annotated for interruptions, to facilitate research in this domain. This corpus serves as a valuable resource for evaluating and advancing interruption detection techniques. Lastly, we present a first baseline system, which use speech processing methods to automatically identify interruptions in speech with promising results. In this article, we derivate from theoretical notions of interruption to build a simplification of this notion based on overlapped speech detection. Our findings can not only serve as a foundation for further research in the field but also provide a benchmark for assessing future advancements in automatic speech interruption detection.
Anthology ID:
2024.lrec-main.176
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
Month:
May
Year:
2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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ELRA and ICCL
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Pages:
1959–1968
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.176
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Martin Lebourdais, Marie Tahon, Antoine Laurent, and Sylvain Meignier. 2024. Automatic Speech Interruption Detection: Analysis, Corpus, and System. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 1959–1968, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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Automatic Speech Interruption Detection: Analysis, Corpus, and System (Lebourdais et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
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