To ‘errrr’ is human: ecology and acoustics of speech disfluencies

By Elizabeth Shriberg. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 2001

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Conversational In-Vehicle Dialog Systems: The past, present, and future (2016, background): “Additional challenges exist for handling self-repairs [37] in the driver’s speech in real time.”
Prosody in context: a review (2015, background): “Another factor is the overlap in the acoustic cues for prosodic boundaries and the acoustic expression of disfluency (Shriberg, 2001).”
Prosodic and temporal features for language modeling for dialog (2012, background): “These include obviously utterance boundaries and low pitch regions, but also fillers, backchannels, and laughter, as these are all prosodically and phonetically distinctive (Shriberg, 2001; Ward, 2006; Truong and van Leeuwen, 2007).”