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Important Factors for Designing Assamese Prosody with Festival Frame Work

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Prosody is a term related with literature as well as speech technology. It is one of the primary parts for design of any natural sounding text to speech synthesis. Prosody is a broad as well as complex way of expressing meaning of a text segment in terms of pitch means fundamental frequency of utterance, loudness or intensity, intonation, and rhythm. The term is related to phonology and used to convey meaning as well as structure or configuration of a speech unit. This paper discusses about the important issues to design a well-versed prosody with respect to above-mentioned properties. Though our aim is to design an Assamese prosody in festival framework, yet we are highlighting the features which must be taken care of regardless of any specific language.

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  1. Department of Information Technology, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India

    Parismita Sarma

  2. Cotton College State University, Guwahati, Assam, India

    Shikhar Kumar Sarma

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  1. Smart Energy Research Unit, College of Engineering and Science, Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Akhtar Kalam

  2. Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Swagatam Das

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Rangpo, Sikkim, India

    Kalpana Sharma

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Sarma, P., Sarma, S.K. (2018). Important Factors for Designing Assamese Prosody with Festival Frame Work. In: Kalam, A., Das, S., Sharma, K. (eds) Advances in Electronics, Communication and Computing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 443. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4765-7_22

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