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ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Learning to Predict Pitch Accents and Prosodic Boundaries in Dutch
We train a decision tree inducer (CART) and a memory-based classifier (MBL) on predicting prosodic pitch accents and breaks in Dutch text, on the basis of shallow, easy-to-comput...
Erwin Marsi, Martin Reynaert, Antal van den Bosch,...
TSD
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Modeling Prosodic Structures in Linguistically Enriched Environments
A significant challenge in Text-to-Speech (TtS) synthesis is the formulation of the prosodic structures (phrase breaks, pitch accents, phrase accents and boundary tones) of uttera...
Gerasimos Xydas, Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Georgios...
ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Semi-supervised Learning for Automatic Prosodic Event Detection Using Co-training Algorithm
Most of previous approaches to automatic prosodic event detection are based on supervised learning, relying on the availability of a corpus that is annotated with the prosodic lab...
Je Hun Jeon, Yang Liu
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
Exploiting active-learning strategies for annotating prosodic events with limited labeled data
Many applications of spoken-language systems can benefit from having access to annotations of prosodic events. Unfortunately, obtaining human annotations of these events, even se...
Raul Fernandez, Bhuvana Ramabhadran
FGR
2002
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Visual Prosody: Facial Movements Accompanying Speech
As we articulate speech, we usually move the head and exhibit various facial expressions. This visual aspect of speech aids understanding and helps communicating additional inform...
Hans Peter Graf, Eric Cosatto, Volker Strom, Fu Ji...