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Jan Romportl : Prosodic Phrase Annotation in Czech Corpus . Proceedings of the 19th Czech-German Workshop on Speech Processing, p. 80-83, Prague, 2009.

Abstract

In order to improve speech naturalness of a unit selection TTS system it is necessary to annotate prosodic phrase boundaries in the whole source corpus, which is extremely difficult to achieve manually. However, automatic machine learning methods require reliable training and testing sets. This paper describes an objective method for assignment of prosodic phrases in read speech data, which is able to produce such reliable sets. The method is based on statistical evaluation of listening test data by a maximum-likelihood approach with parameters estimated by an EM algorithm.

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Title: Prosodic Phrase Annotation in Czech Corpus
Author: Jan Romportl
Language: English
Year: 2009
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: Proceedings of the 19th Czech-German Workshop on Speech Processing
Page: 80 - 83
ISBN: 978-80-86269-18-4
Address: Prague
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Keywords

prosody, TTS system, corpus

BibTeX

@INPROCEEDINGS{JanRomportl_2009_ProsodicPhrase,
 author = {Jan Romportl},
 title = {Prosodic Phrase Annotation in Czech Corpus},
 year = {2009},
 address = {Prague},
 pages = {80-83},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Czech-German Workshop on Speech Processing},
 ISBN = {978-80-86269-18-4},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/JanRomportl_2009_ProsodicPhrase},
}