Title
Analysis and Synthesis of Glottalization Phenomena in German-Accented English.
Abstract
The present paper investigates the analysis and synthesis of glottalization phenomena in German-accented English. Word-initial glottalization was manually annotated in a subset of a German-accented English speech corpus. For each glottalized segment, time-normalized F0 and log-energy contours were produced and principal component analysis was performed on the contour sets in order to reduce their dimensionality. Centroid contours of the PC clusters were used for contour reconstruction in the resynthesis experiments. The prototype intonation and intensity contours were superimposed over non-glottalized word-initial vowels in order to resynthesize creaky voice. This procedure allows the automatic creation of speech stimuli which could be used in perceptual experiments for basic research on glottalizations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-11581-8_12
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
glottalization,speech perception,speech synthesis
Speech corpus,Glottalization,Speech synthesis,Computer science,Creaky voice,Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Speech perception,Principal component analysis,Centroid,German
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8773
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ivan Kraljevski174.00
Maria Paola Bissiri292.11
Guntram Strecha3194.17
Rüdiger Hoffmann410526.70