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Prosodic Parameters of French in a Speech Recognition System

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Intonation

Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology ((TLTB,volume 15))

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Abstract

The importance of integrating prosody into different speech processing systems is nowadays widely acknowledged. Prosodie parameter modelling was first carried out for text-to-speech synthesis, since this speech processing technique could not work without prosody (Emerard, 1977; Klatt, 1979). It appeared to speech researchers that prosody would also be helpful in speech recognition (Carbonell, Haton, Lonchamp & Pierrel, 1982; Waibel, 1987; Ljolje & Fallside, 1987; Wang & Hirschberg, 1992). However, the way to use prosodie parameters in a speech recognition system is less straightforward than in text-to-speech synthesis. A good predicting model in speech recognition has to forecast different varieties of speaking styles while in speech synthesis one correct speaking style prediction, appropriate to a given application, is sufficient.

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Bartkova, K. (2000). Prosodic Parameters of French in a Speech Recognition System. In: Botinis, A. (eds) Intonation. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4317-2_15

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