# Sequence Segmentation Using Joint RNN and Structured Prediction Models

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.07918 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1610.07918/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 25 Oct 2016.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Unsupervised Speech Segmentation: A General Approach Using Speech Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.03711/) (2025)
- [wav2VOT: Automatic estimation of voice onset time, closure duration, and burst realisation with wav2vec2](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.28857/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We describe and analyze a simple and effective algorithm for sequence segmentation applied to speech processing tasks. We propose a neural architecture that is composed of two modules trained jointly: a recurrent neural network (RNN) module and a structured prediction model. The RNN outputs are considered as feature functions to the structured model. The overall model is trained with a structured loss function which can be designed to the given segmentation task. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method by applying it to two simple tasks commonly used in phonetic studies: word segmentation and voice onset time segmentation. Results sug- gest the proposed model is superior to previous methods, ob- taining state-of-the-art results on the tested datasets.