Paper Info
Title
Acoustic Correlates Of Perceived Syllable Prominence In German
Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between perceived syllable prominence and the acoustic properties of a speech utterance. It is aimed at establishing a link between the linguistic meaning of an utterance in terms of sentence modality and focus and its underlying prosodic features. Applications of such knowledge can be found in computer based pronunciation training as well as general automatic speech recognition and understanding. Our acoustic analysis confirms earlier results in that focus and sentence mode modify the fundamental frequency contour, syllabic durations and intensity. However, we could not find consistent differences between utterances produced with non-contrastive and contrastive focus, respectively. Only one third of utterances with broad focus were identified as such. Ratings of syllable prominence are strongly correlated with the amplitude A alpha of underlying accent commands, syllable duration, maximum intensity and mean harmonics-to-noise ratio.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2015
16TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2015), VOLS 1-5
prominence, perception, automatic speech recognition, Fujisaki model, F0
Field
DocType
Citations 
Pronunciation,Syllabic verse,Fundamental frequency,Computer science,Utterance,Speech recognition,Syllable,Sentence,German
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hansjörg Mixdorff120845.36
Christian Cossio-Mercado200.34
Angelika Hönemann372.61
Jorge A. Gurlekian483.84
Diego Evin500.34
Humberto M. Torres631.08