Paper Info
Title
The Relative Cueing Power Of F0 And Duration In German Prominence Perception
Abstract
Previous studies showed for German and other (West) Germanic language, including English, that perceived syllable prominence is primarily controlled by changes in duration and FO, with the latter cue being more powerful than the former. Our study is an initial approach to develop this prominence hierarchy further by putting numbers on the interplay of duration and FO. German listeners indirectly judged through lexical identification the relative prominence levels of two neighboring syllables. Results show that an increase in FO of between 0.49 and 0.76 st is required to outweigh the prominence effect of a 30% increase in duration of a neighboring syllable. These numbers are fairly stable across a large range of absolute FO and duration levels and hence useful in speech technology.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.21437/Interspeech.2017-375
18TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2017), VOLS 1-6: SITUATED INTERACTION
Keywords
Field
DocType
prominence, perception, FO, duration, German
Computer science,Speech recognition,Perception,German
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2308-457X
1
0.35
References 
Authors
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Oliver Niebuhr1388.07
Jana Winkler210.35