This paper presents a stochastic model of intonation contours for use in text-to-speech s. The model has two modules, a linguistic module that generates abstract prosodic rom text...
Automatic segmentation and classification of dialog acts (DAs; e.g., statements versus questions) is important for spoken language understanding (SLU). While most systems have re...
With the advent of prosody annotation standards such as tones and break indices (ToBI), speech technologists and linguists alike have been interested in automatically detecting pro...
Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Shrikanth S. Nar...
Automatic sentence segmentation of spoken language is an important precursor to downstream natural language processing. Previous studies combine lexical and prosodic features, but...
Abstract. Decision making is an important aspect of meetings in organisational settings, and archives of meeting recordings constitute a valuable source of information about the de...