Evolutionary algorithm for speech segmentation

Speech segmentation is one of the problems in the speech processing area. The main techniques that attempt to solve it are manual segmentation and hidden Markov model alignment. In this work a new technique based on an evolutionary algorithm that permits to segment the speech without a previous training process is presented.

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