DocumentCode :
2838950
Title :
Intensity in relation to prosody organization
Author :
Tseng, Chiu-Yu ; Lee, Yelling
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Linguistics, Acad. Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
fYear :
2004
fDate :
15-18 Dec. 2004
Firstpage :
217
Lastpage :
220
Abstract :
Mandarin fluent speech prosody is most significantly characterized by phrase grouping. A hierarchical prosody framework of phrase grouping has been proposed, where corresponding evidence of governing effects from the prosody organization were found in two acoustic correlates, namely, overall F0 contours and temporal allocations (Tseng, C. et al., "From Traditional Phonology to Mandarin Speech Processing", Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Process, p.417-38, 2004). We present results of investigating, through corpus analyses, a third acoustic correlate, i.e., intensity, to look for corresponding evidence in relation to prosody organization as well. The specific questions raised are: (1) how the intensity pattern can be explained by the governing effect of prosody organization; (2) whether the governing effect can be used in predicting intensity distribution. We argue that the acoustic roles of speech rhythm and intensity are as much an integrated part of speech prosody as F0 contour patterns. Therefore, we conclude that in order to construct a working prosody model, all three acoustic correlates should be considered in relation to prosody organization. The conclusion is also directly applicable to TTS to improve output naturalness.
Keywords :
linguistics; natural languages; speech; speech processing; Mandarin fluent speech prosody; TTS; acoustic correlates; contour patterns; corpus analyses; governing effect; intensity pattern; phrase grouping; speech prosody; speech rhythm; temporal allocations; Bismuth; Constitution; Electrostatic precipitators; Humans; Labeling; Predictive models; Rhythm; Speech analysis;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2004 International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8678-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/CHINSL.2004.1409625
Filename :
1409625
Link To Document :
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