An Intonation Speech Synthesis Model for Indonesian Using Pitch Pattern and Phrase Identification

Intonation recognition for indonesian speech based on fujisaki model

In this paper, we proposed to use the Fujisaki parameter to distinguish between declarative and interrogative intonation in Indonesian speech. Four combinations of Fujisaki parameter were selected as the features to distinguish between declarative and interrogative intonation. The first combination is only the amplitude of last accent command. The second combination consists of the amplitude of...

From speech corpus to intonation corpus: clustering phrase pitch contours of Lithuanian

This paper presents our research in preparation to compile a Lithuanian intonation corpus. The main objective of this research was to discover characteristic patterns of Lithuanian intonation through clustering of pitch contours of intermediate intonation phrases. The paper covers the set of procedures that were used to extend an ordinary speech corpus to make it suitable for intonation analysi...

An Intonational Phrase Boundary and Pitch Accent Dependent Speech Recognizer

Does prosody help word recognition? In this paper, we propose a novel probabilistic framework in which word and phoneme are dependent on prosody in a way that improves word recognition. We describe the idea of prosody dependent speech recognition by building a prosody dependent speech recognizer that conditions word and phoneme models on two important prosodic variables: intonational phrase bou...

A comprehensive model of intonation for application in speech synthesis

An advanced intonation model for synthesis

The advanced intonation model for speech synthesis described here has a three level architecture. An initial abstract characterisation designed to represent intonation at the level of cognitive percept is rewritten to an intermediate representation which is speaker independent, yet which accurately reflects physical pitch contours. At this stage the contours lack the variability associated with...