Phoneme-monitoring reaction time and preceding prosody: Effects of stop closure duration and of fundamental frequency

Phoneme-monitoring reaction time and preceding prosody: Effects of stop closure duration and of fundamental frequency

Phoneme-monitoring reaction time and preceding prosody: Effects of stop closure duration and of fundamental frequency

Phoneme-monitoring reaction time and preceding prosody: Effects of stop closure duration and of fundamental frequency

Phoneme-monitoring reaction time and preceding prosody: effects of stop closure duration and of fundamental frequency.

In an earlier study, it was shown that listeners can use prosodic cues that predict where sentence stress will fall; phoneme-monitoring RTs are faster when the preceding prosody indicates that the word bearing the target will be stressed. Two experiments which further investigate this effect are described. In the first, it is shown that the duration of the closure preceding the release of the t...

Prosody modelling in Czech text-to-speech synthesis

This paper describes data-driven modelling of all three basic prosodic features – fundamental frequency, intensity and segmental duration – in the Czech text-to-speech system ARTIC. The fundamental frequency is generated by a model based on concatenation of automatically acquired intonational patterns. Intensity of synthesised speech is modelled by experimentally created rules which are in conf...