A Special Prosodic Phrasing in Broadcasting News Programs

Author

Zou, Yu ; He, Wei ; Zhang, Yuqiang ; Hou, Min ; Zhu, Weibin

Author_Institution

Broadcast Media Language Res. Center, Commun. Univ. of China, Beijing, China

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

24-26 April 2009

Firstpage

406

Lastpage

408

Abstract

In order to improve and convey the semantic information perfectly and vividly through synthesized speech, a special prosodic phrasing in broadcasting news programs, namely complex prosodic phrase (C-PP), is proposed in this study. Empirical results show that the C-PP, which there is the pitch declination trend within it, a stable syntactic structure and whole semantic chunk, has a very important role for creation of announcers. Modeling on the special prosodic phrase in broadcast news can effectively develop and improve the speech synthesis in Chinese.

Keywords

computational linguistics; natural languages; speech synthesis; Chinese language; broadcasting news program; complex prosodic phrase; pitch declination trend; semantic information; speech synthesis; stable syntactic structure; whole semantic chunk; Helium; Information analysis; Information science; Large-scale systems; Monitoring; Natural languages; Radio broadcasting; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; TV broadcasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Sciences and Optimization, 2009. CSO 2009. International Joint Conference on

Conference_Location

Sanya, Hainan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3605-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSO.2009.81

Filename

5193983