TY - JOUR T1 - A Survey: Text Independent Automatic Speech Segmentation Techniques AU - Al-Hassani, Ihsan AU - Al-Dakkak, Oumayma AU - Assami, Abdlnaser JO - Research Journal of Applied Sciences VL - 16 IS - 2 SP - 75 EP - 84 PY - 2021 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1815-932x DO - rjasci.2021.75.84 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjasci.2021.75.84 KW - ASR KW -TTS KW -phonetic segmentation KW -text-independent KW -fusion KW -performance metrics KW -Query-by-Example (QbyE) KW -modeling KW -HMM AB - 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. ER -