Prosody analysis on Tibetan Lhasa dialect news reading

Author

Ning, Ma ; Hongzhi, Yu ; Jinshuang, Zhang ; Huaping, Fang

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of China´´s Nat. Linguistic Inf. Technol., Northwest Univ. for Nat., Lanzhou, China

Volume

1

fYear

2012

fDate

25-27 May 2012

Firstpage

288

Lastpage

291

Abstract

Based on the experimental phonetics means, this paper has collected male/female each 20 passages of Tibetan Lhasa dialect news as subject, labeled them by Praat software and extracted labeling data saved into .xls files. With the prosody boundary perception, it has labeled for various levels of prosody units and the prosody units include sentence, prosody-phrase, prosody-word and syllable. After data extraction, it has done study on interrelationship, different levels´ prosody units´ duration, silence segmentations, etc between male and female news reading aspects.

Keywords

gender issues; natural language processing; speech processing; speech synthesis; .xls files; Praat software; Tibetan Lhasa dialect news reading; experimental phonetics; labeling data extraction; prosody analysis; prosody boundary perception; prosody syllable; prosody units; prosody-phrase; prosody-word; silence segmentations; synthesis speech quality evaluation; Data mining; Educational institutions; Information technology; Labeling; Pragmatics; Speech; Stability analysis; News; Prosody; Reading; Tibetan;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Automation Engineering (CSAE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zhangjiajie

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0088-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSAE.2012.6272599

Filename

6272599