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CSL
2007
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Stochastic and syntactic techniques for predicting phrase breaks
Determining the position of breaks in a sentence is a key task for a text-to-speech (TTS) system. We describe some methods for phrase break prediction in which the whole sentence ...
Ian Read, Stephen Cox
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Integrating Linguistic and Performance-Based Constraints for Assigning Phrase Breaks
The mapping between syntactic structure and prosodic structure is a widely discussed topic in linguistics. In this work we use insights gained from research on syntax-to-prosody m...
Michaela Atterer, Ewan Klein
LREC
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
ProPOSEL: A Prosody and POS English Lexicon for Language Engineering
ProPOSEL is a prototype prosody and PoS (part-of-speech) English lexicon for Language Engineering, derived from the following language resources: the computer-usable dictionary CU...
Claire Brierley, Eric Atwell
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Finding Non-local Dependencies: Beyond Pattern Matching
We describe an algorithm for recovering non-local dependencies in syntactic dependency structures. The patternmatching approach proposed by Johnson (2002) for a similar task for p...
Valentin Jijkoun
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...