... pronunciation of vowels in Automatic Stress Prediction Our stress assignment system maps a word, w, to a stressed-form of the word, w We formulate stress ¯ assignment as a sequence prediction problem The ... is stressed or unstressed We use the number ‘1’ to indicate that a substring receives primary stress, ‘2’ for secondary stress, and ‘0’ to indicate no stress We call this output sequence the stress ... context-sensitive rules for producing English stress from underlying word forms Due to its importance in text -to- speech, there is also a long history of computational stress prediction systems (Fudge,...