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CSL
2007
Springer
14 years 10 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
14 years 10 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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14 years 11 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
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ACL
2003
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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
15 years 3 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...