Title :
Implementation and evaluation of a model for synthesis of Swedish intonation
Author :
Horne, Merle ; Filipsson, Marcus
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Linguistics & Phonetics, Lund Univ., Sweden
Abstract :
An abstract prosodic structure is implemented in terms of acoustic parameters realizing underlying word accents and boundary markers. The system is further evaluated in order to determine whether listeners prefer intonation contours produced with: (1) default focal accent placement (`sentence stress´) on the last content word in each prosodic phrase vs. focal accent assigned to the last `new´ content word in each prosodic phrase; (2) minimal prosodic boundary signalling at commas and full stops vs. more detailed prosodic boundary signalling generated using an underlying prosodic structure
Keywords :
modelling; natural languages; speech processing; speech synthesis; word processing; Swedish intonation model synthesis; abstract prosodic structure; acoustic parameters; boundary markers; content word; default focal accent placement; intonation contours; minimal prosodic boundary signalling; prosodic phrase; sentence stress; underlying prosodic structure; underlying word accents; Data mining; Signal generators; Signal synthesis; Speech synthesis; Stock markets;
Conference_Titel :
Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3555-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607991
