10. A method of speech segmentation comprising: processing speech data so as to detect pauses; forming speech block boundaries at a selected subset of the pauses, selection being based on a preselected target speech block length, said selection accomplished by dividing the total duration of the speech data in a file by the target speech block length to derive a desired pause number n, and detecting the n most significant pauses in that file and forming speech block boundaries at these n pauses in the speech data.
10. A method of speech segmentation comprising: processing speech data so as to detect pauses; forming speech block boundaries at a selected subset of the pauses, selection being based on a preselected target speech block length, said selection accomplished by dividing the total duration of the speech data in a file by the target speech block length to derive a desired pause number n, and detecting the n most significant pauses in that file and forming speech block boundaries at these n pauses in the speech data. 11. A method according to claim 10 wherein the significance of a pause is proportional to the duration of the pause.