Designing and Labelling a Prosodic Database for American English
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A corpus of read American English was designed as a research tool for speech synthesis and prosody research with an emphasis on concept-to-speech research. The total duration of the corpus is two hours. It was recorded with two native speakers who also provide the voices of the VERBMOBIL American English speech synthesis. The corpus was annotated linguistically on several levels (syntax, semantic, pragmatic). All sentences were labelled prosodically and phonetically by hand-correcting automatically generated labels.
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تاریخ انتشار 1998