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This paper deals with a major issue for designing a Text-to-Speech synthesizer. To design a speech synthesizer, we need speech prosody where all significant and important utterance-related information are systematically stored. An utterance can be divided into the segmental level as well as suprasegmental level. Suprasegmental level deals with syllable, word, and sentence. We are experimentally studying the behaviors of these segments with respect to Northeast Indian language Assamese. To design intonation model of any language, a clear understanding of a prominent portion of an utterance, prosodic boundary as well as tunes of the concerned sentences are necessary. In this paper, we are discussing all these features with the help of some selected speech items from our Assamese speech database. We are trying to explain the suprasegmental behavior of utterances with the help of tables and graphs prepared from our experiment.
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Sarma, P., Sarma, S.K. (2018). A Study on Variation of Suprasegmental Phonetic Appearance Considered for Prosody Design with Respect to Assamese Language. In: Mandal, J., Saha, G., Kandar, D., Maji, A. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing and Communication Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 24. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6890-4_25
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