Why does speech recognition accuracy decrease significantly at utterance boundaries in continuous speech?

💡 Explanation

Speech recognition degrades at utterance boundaries because coarticulation effects exhibit maximal distortion due to the influence of preceding and following phonetic contexts creating acoustic variations. Therefore, acoustic models trained on isolated words struggle, rather than performing consistently due to uniform phonetic realization in all contexts.

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