... Assigning Intonational Features in Synthesized Spoken Directions °
James Raymond Davis
The Media Laboratory
MIT E15-325
Cambridge ...
spoken directions, provides a first approximation of how
recent models of discourse structure can be used to control
intonational variation in ways that build upon recent re-
search in intonational ... synthesis must rely primarily upon struct...
... to
predict intonational boundaries for spontaneous
speech and equals or betters previous (hand-
crafted) algorithms tested for read speech.
Intonational Phrasing
Intuitively, intonational ... Information
System (ATIS) spoken language system evaluation
task. In a Wizard-of-Oz simulation, subjects were
asked to make travel plans for an assigned task,
providing spoken input and...
... a discourse.
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4. Intonational and Discourse Phenomena
The major questions underlying our research are: First,
what is the relationship between particular'- ,intonational
phenomena ... distinct intonational
phenomena seem to produce discourse effects that seem intuitively
to be closely related. And sometimes several discourse phenomena
may indicate conflicting intonationa...
... datasets. We attribute this gain
to the presence of more attenuated topic transi-
tions in spoken language. Since spoken language
is more spontaneous and less structured than writ-
ten language, the ... evident in the perfor-
mance of existing unsupervised algorithms on less
structured datasets, such as spoken meeting tran-
scripts (Galley et al., 2003). Therefore, a more
refined analysi...