Prosody Modeling in Concept-to-Speech Generation

This study characterizes the prosodic structure of the TV news speaking style in Brazil and compares it to the speech of interview subjects on a television talk show. Fifteen distinct metrics, designed to characterize both temporal and melodic characteristics of speech, were evaluated on the two speaking styles. The results of the analysis show that the TV news speaking style is characterized b...

As we articulate speech, we usually move the head and exhibit various facial expressions. This visual aspect of speech aids understanding and helps communicating additional information, such as the speaker’s mood. In this paper we analyze quantitatively head and facial movements that accompany speech and investigate how they relate to the text’s prosodic

Theoretical approaches mostly associate stressed additive particles (e.g., auch in German) with contrastive topics. Empirical data show that associated constituents are produced more prominently than unassociated ones but not that they are contrastive topics. This paper compares the prosodic realizations of associated constituents with contrastive and non-contrastive topics. We found no differe...

In order to synthesize natural spoken dialogue, it is necessary to incorporate dialogue information into generation of the surface sentence and the prosody. This paper describes the prediction of F0 maximum for minor phrases in dialogue based on a two-step predictive method. Special attentions are directed to speci c phrases containing the person's name or the day of the week in the schedule ar...

The paper tests for several potential acoustic correlates of the emphatic accent differentiating between broad focus and clause-final narrow focus in Estonian. The examined correlates were related to F0, duration, intensity and spectral emphasis. Interestingly, duration was found to be by far the strongest correlate of emphasis, whereas crosslinguistically emphasis has been found to be expresse...

ةيتوصلا تاربنلاو عاقيلإا ملع مدختسي (Prosody) قوطنملا ةجلاعمب ةقلعتملا تاقيبطتلا نم ديدعلا يف عساو قاطن ىلع ، ملاكلا ىلع فرعتلا اهنم ملكتملا ىلع فرعتلاو جهلو هت إ ايلآ هعيطقتو ملاكلل يعوضوملا فينصتلا يف اضيأ ملعلا اذه مدختسي امآ ، رعاشملا ديدحتو ليوحت تاقيبطت يفو لمج ىل ،ةعومسم ةءارق ىلإ بوتكملا صنلا ةيبرعلا ريغ ىرخأ تاغل تيقل دقو اًريثآ ددصلا اذه يف مامتهلاا نم . فوسو دحأ ىلإ ةساردلا هذه يف ض...

In a production experiment on Bulgarian that was based on a previous study on Dutch [1], we investigated the role of prosody when linguistic and extra-linguistic information coincide or contradict. Speakers described abnormally colored fruits in conditions where contrastive focus and discourse relations were varied. We found that the coincidence of contrast and abnormality enhances accentuation...