Developing the modelling of Swedish prosody in spontaneous dialogue

Author

Bruce, Gösta ; Filipsson, Marcus ; Frid, John ; Granström, Björn ; Gustafson, Kjell ; Horne, Merle ; House, David ; Lastow, Birgitta ; Touati, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Linguistics & Phonetics, Lund, Sweden

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Oct 1996

Firstpage

370

Abstract

The main goal of our current research is the development of the Swedish prosody model. In our analysis of discourse and dialogue intonation, we are exploiting model-based resynthesis. By comparing synthesized default and fine-tuned pitch contours for the dialogues under study, we are able to isolate relevant intonation patterns. This analysis of intonation is related to an independent modelling of topic structure consisting of lexical-semantic analysis and text segmentation. Some results from our model-based acoustic analysis are presented, and its implementation in text-to-speech-synthesis is discussed

Keywords

acoustic analysis; linguistics; natural languages; speech processing; speech synthesis; Swedish prosody model; discourse; fine-tuned pitch contours; intonation patterns; lexical-semantic analysis; model-based acoustic analysis; model-based resynthesis; spontaneous dialogue; synthesized default pitch contours; text segmentation; text-to-speech-synthesis; topic structure; Acoustics; Databases; Electrostatic precipitators; Information analysis; Labeling; Music; Signal analysis; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3555-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607131

Filename

607131