Speech segmentation is the process of identifying the boundaries between words, syllables, or phonemes in spoken natural languages. The term applies both to the mental processes used by humans, and to artificial processes of natural language processing.
Speech segmentation is an important subproblem of speech recognition, and cannot be adequately solved in isolation. As in most natural language processing problems, one must take into account context, grammar, and semantics, and even so the result is often a probabilistic division rather than a categorical. A comprehensive survey of speech segmentation problems and techniques can be seen in.
Some writing systems indicate speech segmentation between words by a word divider, such as the space.
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