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Intonation Modelling for Speech Synthesis and Emphasis Preservation

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SWISS FRENCH PROSODY: INTONATION RATE

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1 Speech synthesis of dialectal variants as a method for research on

We wish to present a Swiss National Fund study on dialectal prosody which initial goal is to build a complete synthesis of two Swiss German dialects.

The Prosody of Two-Syllable Words in French-Speaking

The aim of this study is to examine word prosody in French-speaking children's speech with a focus on initial and final accent. We study children aged 2;6 

SOCIOPHONETICS OF PHONOTACTIC PHENOMENA IN FRENCH

on a 13-hour speech corpus labelled at different (Belgium

The Slaying of Lady Mondegreen being a Study of French Tonal

Items 19 - 27 This dissertation investigates French intonational structure and the role of language- specific intonational cues to speech segmentation the ...

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The prosody of two-syllable words in french-speaking monolingual and bilingual children: a focus on initial accent and final accent. Language and speech 

Prosodic and Voice Quality Cross-Language Analysis of Storytelling

Expressive Categories Oriented to Text-To-Speech Synthesis. Realizada por The Role of Prosody and Voice Quality in Indirect Storytelling Speech:.

Intra-Lingual and Cross-Lingual Prosody Modelling

With this in view we also comment here on the relevance of each approach discussed for use in Text-to-Speech synthesis. 2.3.1 Intonational Phonology. The 

Variation Adds to Prosodic Typology

Importance of Prosody in Swiss French Accent for Speech Synthesis

1 3 Swiss accent perception in synthesis As prosody is important in Swiss French accent we believe that to syn-thesise Swiss accented speech the prosody must be well modelled In this direction our previous work investigated the perception of the de-gree of accent of standard French pronunciation supplanted with Swiss prosody (Honnet et al

Why are prosodic features important? Explained by FAQ Blog

to synthesise Swiss French with an adequate prosody We previously used standard French intonation with Swiss prosody In this work we wanttoadapttheTTSmodelstotargetregionalaccentsinordertopro-vide the pronunciation observed in these regions The average French models are the same as in our previous work

Importance of Prosody in Swiss French Accent for Speech Synthesis

Prosody in Swiss French Accents: Investigation using Analysis

the importance of prosody in modelling Swiss French accents We use speech synthesis techniques to produce standard French pronunciation with Swiss French duration and intonation Sub-jective evaluation to rate the degree of Swiss accent was con-ducted and showed that prosody modi?cation alone reduces per-ceived difference between original

Prosody in Swiss French Accents: Investigation using Analysis

the importance of prosody in modelling Swiss French accents We use speech synthesis techniques to produce standard French pronunciation with Swiss French duration and intonation

Prosody in Swiss French Accents: Investigation using Analysis

the importance of prosody in modelling Swiss French accents We use speech synthesis techniques to produce standard French pronunciation with Swiss French duration and intonation Sub-jective evaluation to rate the degree of Swiss accent was con-ductedandshowedthatprosodymodiÞcationalonereducesper-ceived difference between original Swiss

Syllable-based Regional Swiss French Accent Identi?cation

bene?cial for personalizing a speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) sys-tem for synthesizing the recognized and translated speech from one language to a speci?c regional accent in another language (Liang et al 2010) Totheextentofourknowledgenopreviousworkhasbeendone on the regional accent identi?cation task of French or Swiss French ac-

Contribution of prosody to the perception of a foreign accent

prosody to the perception of foreign accent Speech synthesis in particular allows us to sort out the influence of segmental vs suprasegmental features (i e the phoneme string vs prosody) in what is perceived as a foreign accent (e g Spanish or Italian) Speech synthesis is a good tool to make

Speech Prosody of French Regional Varieties

based study of French prosody regional variations The mentioned hypotheses will be specifically addressed and the productions of speakers in six regional varieties will be studied and compared While the study of regional variations primarily aims to improve modeling of the the theoretical French prosodic system this may also be used to improve

14 A Prosodic Model for Text-to-speech Synthesis in French

speech synthesis with the kind of quality that makes it acceptable and attractive to the general public is thus one of the major challenges of today's speech technology research A second challenge is the capability of processing unrestricted running texts regardless of their length or content