Isolated-Word Confusion Metrics and the PGPfone Alphabet

dc.creatorJuola, Patrick
dc.date1996-08-29
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:10:38Z
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dc.descriptionAlthough the confusion of individual phonemes and features have been studied and analyzed since (Miller and Nicely, 1955), there has been little work done on extending this to a predictive theory of word-level confusions. The PGPfone alphabet is a good touchstone problem for developing such word-level confusion metrics. This paper presents some difficulties incurred, along with their proposed solutions, in the extension of phonetic confusion results to a theoretical whole-word phonetic distance metric. The proposed solutions have been used, in conjunction with a set of selection filters, in a genetic algorithm to automatically generate appropriate word lists for a radio alphabet. This work illustrates some principles and pitfalls that should be addressed in any numeric theory of isolated word perception.
dc.description12 pages, includes minipage.tex and nemlapfig.eps, uses nemlap.sty
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9608021
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9608021
dc.identifierNeMLaP-96, Sept. 16-18, 1996, Ankara TURKEY
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151402
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.titleIsolated-Word Confusion Metrics and the PGPfone Alphabet
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