Identification of Spontaneous Spoken Texts in Slovak

Abstract

Abstract We propose a text classification method for the purpose of creating a language model for automatic recognition of spontaneous spoken speech. Transcripts from our departmental speech database served as spontaneous spoken texts. Using supervised machine learning methods, we have created multiple classification models (including neural networks), that were able to distinguish them from written texts with high accuracy. We subsequently verified the accuracy of our trained models on a database of texts containing direct speech extracted from newspaper articles.