Intonation development from five to thirteen

From Intonation to Information

Intonation Conversion from Neutral to Expressive Speech

Intonation is one of the most important factors of speech expressivity. This paper presents a conversion method for the F0 contours. The F0 segments are represented with discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients at the syllable level. Multi-level dynamic features are added to model the temporal correlation between syllables and to constrain the F0 contour at the phrase level. Gaussian mixtur...

From Prosodic Structure to Intonation Contours

The design of a set of rules for generating Swedish intonation in a text-to-speech system containing a linguistic preprocessor is presented.

Thirteen Sudden Deaths from Suffocation

I propose in the following paper to give your readers a brief description of 13 deaths due to suffocation, not of poisonous or irrespirable gases which came under my notice during the nine years' medico-legal experience that I have been relating. Race and sex.?These cases occurred in the persons of 4 adult native males, 2 adult native females, 4 native boys, 1 native girl, 1 adult European male...

From Information Structure to Intonation : A PhonologicalInterface for Concept - to

The paper describes an interface between generator and synthesizer of the German language concept-to-speech system VieCtoS. It discusses phenomena in German intonation that depend on the interaction between grammatical dependencies (projection of information structure into syntax) and prosodic context (performance-related modiications to intonation patterns). Phonological processing in our syst...