Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Sciences and Optimization, 2009. CSO 2009. International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sanya, Hainan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3605-7
DOI :
10.1109/CSO.2009.81
