Corpus-based prosody translation system

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2006-06-27

2006-06-27

McFadden, Susan (Department: 2655)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Synthesis

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07069216

ABSTRACT:
A method of prosody translation is given. A target input symbol sequence is provided, including a first set of speech prosody descriptors. An instance-based learning algorithm is applied to a corpus of speech unit descriptors to select an output symbol sequence representative of the target input symbol sequence and including a second set of speech prosody descriptors. The second set differs from the first set.

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