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Imitating Broadcast News Style: Commonalities and Differences Between French and Brazilian Professionals

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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2018)

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In this paper we asked four Brazilian and four French news announcers, both females and males, to read a text in their native language three times: in a neutral way, imitating broadcast news from memory and imitating the style of another female news announcer after listening to her talking about a different topic. From these 24 recordings, we analysed the proportion of initial stress in accentual phrases, three fundamental frequency (F0) statistical descriptors (median, standard deviation, range), reading and pause duration, as well as spectral emphasis, a correlate of vocal effort. Results pointed out that the main characteristics of the imitated broadcaster style in comparison with the neutral reading are: a higher proportion of initial stress, an increase of at least 2 semitones in F0 median, an increase in F0 range (for Brazilian news announcers, especially) and F0 standard deviation (for French news announcers, especially). In all cases, a higher value for spectral emphasis was found.

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We thank the FAPESP grant 2017/07546-0 for the second author and the CNPq grant 302657/2015-0 for the first author.

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  1. University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

    Plinio A. Barbosa

  2. LIMSI, Orsay, France

    Philippe Boula de Mareüil

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  2. Instituto de Informática - UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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  3. INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal

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  4. UFSCAR, Sao Carlos, Brazil

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  5. Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, La Coruña, Spain

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  6. Université de Toulon, Parc Scientifique Technologique Luminy, Marseille, France

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  7. Centro de Informática e Sistemas, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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Barbosa, P.A., de Mareüil, P.B. (2018). Imitating Broadcast News Style: Commonalities and Differences Between French and Brazilian Professionals. In: Villavicencio, A., et al. Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11122. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99722-3_42

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