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Robert Eklund
Researcher at Linköping University
Publications - 83
Citations - 623
Robert Eklund is an academic researcher from Linköping University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Spoken language & Speech corpus. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 81 publications receiving 595 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert Eklund include University of California, Berkeley & International Computer Science Institute.
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Disfluency in Swedish human–human and human–machine travel booking dialogues
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied disfluency in spontaneous Swedish speech, i.e., the occurrence of hesitation phenomena like eh, oh, repetitions and repairs, mispronunciations, truncated words and so on.
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Pulmonic ingressive phonation : Diachronic and synchronic characteristics, distribution and function in animal and human sound production and in human speech
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the literature on ingressive speech and phonation spanning several centuries is reviewed, as well as contemporary reports of their incidence and characteristics from both functional and acoustic perspectives.
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Crosslinguistic Disfluency Modelling: A Comparative Analysis of Swedish and American English Human–Human and Human–Machine Dialogues
Robert Eklund,Elizabeth Shriberg +1 more
TL;DR: A cross-language study of disfluencies in Swedish and American English human--machine and human--human dialogs finds that comparisons not directly affected by dif ...
Prolongations: A dark horse in the disfluency stable
TL;DR: It is shown that the occurrence of PRs varies according to the type of disfluency, i.e., the “stretching out” of speech sounds as a means of hesitation.
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Xenophones: an investigation of phone set expansion in Swedish and implications for speech recognition and speech synthesis
Robert Eklund,Anders Lindström +1 more
TL;DR: In recent years, both automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) conversion systems have attained quality levels that allow inclusion in everyday applications.