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

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Oct 1996

Firstpage

1848

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;

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.1996.607991

Filename

607991