DocumentCode :
2066372
Title :
Prosodic Modeling for Isolated Mandarin Words and its Application
Author :
Shih, Hung-Kuang ; Chiang, Chen-Yu ; Wang, Yih-Ru ; Chen, Sin-Horng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun. Eng., Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, China
fYear :
2008
fDate :
16-19 Dec. 2008
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
4
Abstract :
In this paper, a new approach to syllable-based modeling of FO contour, duration and energy for isolated Mandarin words is proposed. The syllable FO contour model considers three major affecting factors, including lexical tone, syllable position in a word and inter-syllable coarticulation effect; while both the duration and energy models additionally consider one more affecting factor of base syllable type. Experimental results on a large single-speaker database showed that the method performed very well. Based on the prosodic model, a learning system for Mandarin word prosody pronunciation is designed and implemented for normative speakers.
Keywords :
speech; speech processing; contour model; inter syllable coarticulation effect; isolated mandarin words; lexical tone; normative speakers; prosodic modeling; syllable based modeling; Biological neural networks; Databases; Displays; Energy states; Humans; Learning systems; Network synthesis; Power engineering and energy; Speech synthesis;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2008. ISCSLP '08. 6th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kunming
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2942-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2943-1
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/CHINSL.2008.ECP.70
Filename :
4730324
Link To Document :
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