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Morpho-Syntactic Analysis

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Chapters Five and Six will highlight the need for some syntactic processing in a high-quality text-to-speech system. Being able to reduce a given sentence into something like the sequence of its parts of speech, and to further describe it in the form of a syntax tree, which unveils its internal structure, is required for at least two reasons:

  • Accurate phonetic transcription can be achieved only if the part of speech category of some words is available, and may depend on knowing the dependency relationship between successive words.

  • Natural prosody heavily relies on syntax. It also obviously has a lot to do with semantics and pragmatics, but since very little data is currently available on the generative aspects of this dependence, TTS systems merely concentrate on syntax. Yet, as we shall see, few of them are actually provided with full disambiguation and structuring capabilities.

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabes: All mimst were the borogroves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky

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Dutoit, T. (1997). Morpho-Syntactic Analysis. In: An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5730-8_4

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