@article{MAKHILLRJAS202116210289, title = {A Survey: Text Independent Automatic Speech Segmentation Techniques}, journal = {Research Journal of Applied Sciences}, volume = {16}, number = {2}, pages = {75-84}, year = {2021}, issn = {1815-932x}, doi = {rjasci.2021.75.84}, url = {https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?issn=1815-932x&doi=rjasci.2021.75.84}, author = {Ihsan,Oumayma and}, keywords = {ASR,TTS,phonetic segmentation,text-independent,fusion,performance metrics,Query-by-Example (QbyE),modeling,HMM}, abstract = {Speech segmentation techniques have made important advances in the past decades and are still an active area of research and development. It is a process of breaking down a speech signal into smaller units such as phonemes. Speech segmentation is decisive for many acoustic systems essentially Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). Phonetic segmentation techniques are divided into two major categories: Text-Dependent (TD) and Text-Independent (TI). In the text-dependent segmentation techniques, the phonetic annotation of the speech signal is already known and we only need to find the boundaries of each phoneme segment. While in the Text-Independent (TI) techniques no annotation is available, thus, the segmentation relies solely on the acoustic information contained in the speech signal. In this study, we present a thorough survey of the different algorithms and techniques proposed so far for solving the problem of text-independent phonetic segmentation.} }