Phoneme Duration

Phoneme duration, the length of individual speech sounds, is a crucial aspect of speech production and perception, influencing both speaker recognition and speech synthesis. Current research focuses on improving the modeling of phoneme duration in various applications, including speaker identification, speech synthesis, and pronunciation assessment, often employing techniques like attention mechanisms, generative models (e.g., energy-based models), and self-supervised learning to capture complex relationships between acoustic features and articulatory movements. Accurate modeling of phoneme duration is vital for enhancing the realism and naturalness of synthetic speech, improving automatic speech recognition, and developing more robust pronunciation assessment tools.