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Abstract | ||
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In this study, we examine the acoustic structure of schwa variants in a speech corpus intended for concatenative TTS. Our goals are two-fold. First, as a matter of academic interest,. we seek to characterize schwa acoustics in a speech corpus designed to provide broad coverage of di- and tri-phone contexts. This characterization extends recent work on the distinction between the barred-i variant of schwa AI and the more central /partial derivative/ form of schwa [1]. Our second goal is to improve the concordance between our transcriptions as generated by the front-end of our TTS system, and the phonetic. behavior of talkers who record corpora for concatenative ITS. Based on analysis of a single talker's corpus, our results support the claim in [1] that /i/ is more common than generally assumed. However, the claim that /i/ characterizes all stem-medial schwas is not well-supported by our data. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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2008 | INTERSPEECH 2008: 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2008, VOLS 1-5 | acoustic phonetics, schwa, speech synthesis, unit selection, parallel-state HMM |
Field | DocType | Citations |
Computer science,Speech recognition,American English,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Schwa,Linguistics | Conference | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 1 | 2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| H. Timothy Bunnell | 1 | 112 | 19.91 |
| Jason Lilley | 2 | 8 | 4.32 |