Title :
Extracting speech-rate values from a real-speech database
Author_Institution :
IBM UK Sci. Centre, Winchester, UK
Abstract :
An examination of the articulatory and acoustic correlates of duration change using rules based on Klatt ´79 confirms the influence of such known effects as stress, phonetic context, intrinsic vowel duration, part of speech, and position in utterance and provides a key to quantifying and isolating the effects of speech-rate through measurement of the smoothed error extracted from the difference between predicted and observed durations
Keywords :
database management systems; errors; speech analysis and processing; acoustic correlates; articulatory correlate; duration change; intrinsic vowel duration; phonetic context; real-speech database; smoothed error; speech analysis; speech-rate; stress; Acoustic measurements; Databases; Length measurement; Loss measurement; Position measurement; Speech synthesis; Stress measurement; Timing; Winches;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1988. ICASSP-88., 1988 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1988.196678
