System and Method for Handling Missing Speech Data

A system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations comprising:
• evaluating, based on a mean and a variance of duration for individual context-dependent phoneme acoustic models, a plurality of hypothetical segments, the plurality of hypothetical segments being generated to fill a missing segment in speech data, according to a context of speech determined from speech data and a duration of the missing segment to yield an evaluation;
• identifying, based on the evaluation, a possible segment that represents the missing segment of the speech data to yield an identified segment;
• and
• inserting the identified segment into the speech data to replace the missing segment.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations comprising:

• evaluating, based on a mean and a variance of duration for individual context-dependent phoneme acoustic models, a plurality of hypothetical segments, the plurality of hypothetical segments being generated to fill a missing segment in speech data, according to a context of speech determined from speech data and a duration of the missing segment to yield an evaluation;
• identifying, based on the evaluation, a possible segment that represents the missing segment of the speech data to yield an identified segment;
• and
• inserting the identified segment into the speech data to replace the missing segment.