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ACL
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Using Conditional Random Fields to Predict Pitch Accents in Conversational Speech
The detection of prosodic characteristics is an important aspect of both speech synthesis and speech recognition. Correct placement of pitch accents aids in more natural sounding ...
Michelle L. Gregory, Yasemin Altun
ACL
1998
14 years 11 months ago
Consonant Spreading in Arabic Stems
This paper examines the phenomenon of consonant spreading in Arabic stems. Each spreading involves a local surface copying of an underlying consonant, and, in certain phonological...
Kenneth R. Beesley
COLING
2000
14 years 11 months ago
Incorporating Metaphonemes in a Multilingual Lexicon
English bed This paper describes a framework for multilingual /bEd/ inheritance-based lexical representation which al- rib lows sharing of information across languages at /rib/ all...
Carole Tiberius, Lynne J. Cahill
COLING
2002
14 years 9 months ago
Disambiguation of Finite-State Transducers
The objective of this work is to disambiguate transducers which have the following form: T = R D and to be able to apply the determinization algorithm described in (Mohri, 1997)....
N. Smaili, Patrick Cardinal, Gilles Boulianne, Pie...
CSL
2000
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
ProSynth: an integrated prosodic approach to device-independent, natural-sounding speech synthesis
This paper outlines ProSynth, an approach to speech synthesis which takes a rich linguistic structure as central to the generation of natural-sounding speech. We start from the as...
Richard Ogden, Sarah Hawkins, Jill House, Mark Huc...