Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science and Automation Engineering (CSAE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Zhangjiajie
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0088-9
DOI :
10.1109/CSAE.2012.6272599
