Segmentation of coarticulated basic units in isolated Bangla words using multifactorial analysis

One of the major challenges in speech synthesis and recognition is coarticulated unit segmentation. In this paper we present a novel technique for segmenting the basic coarticulated units using multifactorial analysis based approach. The proposed algorithm is applied on isolated spoken words in Bangla. The results obtained from a considerably large database show the strength of the approach.