A model of F0 contour for Arabic affirmative and interrogative sentences

Author

Ibrahim, Omar A G ; El-Ramly, S.H. ; Abdel-Kader, N.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

517

Abstract

This paper presents the results of analyzing the global contour of the fundamental frequency (F0) for Arabic sentences and developing a model that represents it. The work concentrates on analyzing only affirmative and interrogative isolated `read-loud´ sentences. The work is divided into two parts: extracting the common characteristics and differences between the F0 plots of affirmative and interrogative Arabic sentences, and analyzing the effect of change in sentences length on the characteristics and differences extracted in the first part of the study. The analysis is done on a regular PC using a set of special and common software. The model obtained can be easily implemented in speech synthesizers to improve its intonation

Keywords

speech processing; speech synthesis; Arabic; F0 contour; affirmative sentences; fundamental frequency; interrogative sentences; read-loud sentences; speech synthesizers; Equations; Frequency; Joining processes; Signal analysis; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Science Conference, 2001. NRSC 2001. Proceedings of the Eighteenth National

Conference_Location

Mansoura

Print_ISBN

977-5031-68-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NRSC.2001.929411

Filename

929411