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On the Extension of the Formal Prosody Model for TTS

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Text, Speech, and Dialogue (TSD 2018)

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The formal prosody grammar used for TTS focuses mainly on the description of final prosodic words in phrases/sentences which characterize a special prosodic phenomenon representing a certain communication function within the language system. This paper introduces an extension of the prosody model which also takes into account the importance and distinction of the first prosodic words in the prosodic phrases. This phenomenon can not change the semantic interpretation of the phrase, but for higher naturalness, the beginnings of the prosodic phrases differ from subsequent words and should be, based on the phonetic background, dealt with separately.

This research was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (GA CR), project No. GA16-04420S, and by the grant of the University of West Bohemia, project No. SGS-2016-039.

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    Based on authors’ knowledge, it is much easier for the listeners to be concentrated and to compare 2 short sentences in the listening test rather then compare 2 long compound sentences.

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  1. Faculty of Applied Sciences, New Technologies for the Information Society and Department of Cybernetics, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic

    Markéta Jůzová & Daniel Tihelka

  2. Faculty of Arts, Institute of Phonetics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Jan Volín

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Jůzová, M., Tihelka, D., Volín, J. (2018). On the Extension of the Formal Prosody Model for TTS. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11107. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00794-2_38

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