disfluencies

Natural language systems also allow for what are called disfluencies.

Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us Emily Yellin 2009

Reading your essay out loud can also help identify disfluencies and awkwardness.

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In relation to writing fiction, I think speech disfluencies can also serve various purposes.

Unrealistic Dialogue Victoria Janssen 2010

We are much less likely to include speech disfluencies fillers such as "you know," and "ummm," stuttering, broken sentences, incomplete sentences, and the like.

Unrealistic Dialogue Victoria Janssen 2010

I'm not surprised the subtitling firm regularized your anacolutha - unless the brief is explicitly to retain speech errors and disfluencies, subtitles are almost never verbatim but are edited for length and clarity for readability purposes.

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I recently had to edit subtitles where the brief was to shorten the speech, ensure readability, and reproduce a sense of the original disfluencies and speech errors.

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Presumably a natural language system could understand those disfluencies and still route that caller to billing.

Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us Emily Yellin 2009

She knows a great deal more about speech errors and disfluencies than I do.

Pauses in speech josh 2008

She knows a great deal more about speech errors and disfluencies than I do.

Archive 2008-02-01 josh 2008

Now, about those uuuums and eeeers… There are a bunch of different names for those small units in communication: filler words, fillers, filled pauses, hesitation phenomena, disfluencies etc.

Archive 2008-02-01 josh 2008