Title
Automatic Prosodic Break Detection and Feature Analysis
Abstract
Automatic prosodic break detection and annotation are important for both speech understanding and natural speech synthesis.In this paper,we discuss automatic prosodic break detection and feature analysis.The contributions of the paper are two aspects.One is that we use classifier combination method to detect Mandarin and English prosodic break using acoustic,lexical and syntactic evidence.Our proposed method achieves better performance on both the Mandarin prosodic annotation corpus — Annotated Speech Corpus of Chinese Discourse and the English prosodic annotation corpus — Boston University Radio News Corpus when compared with the baseline system and other researches' experimental results.The other is the feature analysis for prosodic break detection.The functions of different features,such as duration,pitch,energy,and intensity,are analyzed and compared in Mandarin and English prosodic break detection.Based on the feature analysis,we also verify some linguistic conclusions.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2012
J. Comput. Sci. Technol.
classifier combination,conditional random field,boosting classification and regression tree,intonational phrase boundary,prosodic break
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
27
6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.67
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chong-Jia Ni1204.84
Ai-Ying Zhang220.67
Bo Xu324136.59