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Everything about Utterance
Smallest unit of speech
In spoken language analysis, an utterance is a continuous piece of speech, by one person, before or after which there is silence on the part of the person. In written language, utterances only exist indirectly, through their representations or portrayals. They can be represented and delineated in written language in many ways. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: UtteranceA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The PartialSpoof Database and Countermeasures for the Detection of Short Fake Speech Segments Embedded in an UtteranceInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Ashes and Ice (Yukon Quest #2)The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Multitalker Speech Separation With Utterance-Level Permutation Invariant Training of Deep Recurrent Neural NetworksCited 640 times
- Go sideways: Prosody (linguistics)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: ParalanguageA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun An act of, or the process of, uttering.
Noun An instance of that act or process: especially, something spoken (e.g., syllables, words, phrases); any such thing either spoken or written.
Noun The ability to speak.
Noun A manner of speaking.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Multitalker Speech Separation With Utterance-Level Permutation Invariant Training of Deep Recurrent Neural Networks
From Utterance to Text: The Bias of Language in Speech and Writing
The Relation between Age and Mean Length of Utterance in Morphemes
Mean Length of Utterance Levels in 6-Month Intervals for Children 3 to 9 Years With and Without Language Impairments
The effect of position in utterance on speech segment duration in English
End-to-End Waveform Utterance Enhancement for Direct Evaluation Metrics Optimization by Fully Convolutional Neural Networks
Effects of disfluencies, predictability, and utterance position on word form variation in English conversation
On the give and take between event apprehension and utterance formulation
🆕 Influential since 2022
The PartialSpoof Database and Countermeasures for the Detection of Short Fake Speech Segments Embedded in an Utterance
The multidimensionality of second language oral fluency: Interfacing cognitive fluency and utterance fluency
SUNET: Speaker-utterance interaction Graph Neural Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversations
Newborns discriminate utterance‐level prosodic contours
Measurement Properties of Mean Length of Utterance in School-Age Children
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Ashes and Ice (Yukon Quest #2)Tracie Peterson · 2002
- 📕Exposition organisée par la ville de Bourg-en-Bresse en hommage à Utrillo - Valadon - Utter. [Période de Saint-Bernard] Catalogue. · 1965
- 📕La PrédicationJean-Marie Merle · 2009
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🔗 Related topics
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- Formulaic language Formulaic language (previously known as automatic speech or embolalia) is a linguistic term for verbal expressions that are fixed in form, often non-literal…
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- Heteroglossia Heteroglossia is the coexistence of distinct linguistic varieties, styles of discourse, or points of view within a single language (in Greek: hetero- "different…
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- Fluency Fluency (also called volubility and eloquency) refers to continuity, smoothness, rate, and effort in speech production. It is also used to characterize…