An algorithm is described which abstracts acoustic parameters of a speech waveform to
automatically transcribe sentential stress and pitch movements. The waveform acoustics …

This paper presents a follow up of a study on the automatic detection of prosodic
prominence in continuous speech. Prosodic prominence involves two different prosodic …

This paper presents a follow up of a study on the automatic detection of prosodic
prominence in spontaneous speech. Prosodic prominence involves two different prosodic …

We report a set of labelling criteria which have been developed to label prosodic events in
clear, continuous speech, and propose a scheme whereby this information can be …

Correct pronunciation of spoken language requires the appropriate modulation of acoustic
characteristics of speech to convey linguistic information at a suprasegmental level. Such …

A precise identification of prosodic phenomena and the construction of tools able to properly
manage such phenomena are essential steps to disambiguate the meaning of certain …

The paper concerns prosody annotation especially for application in a corpus based speech
synthesis. In order to establish the rules of automatic intonation modelling, phonetically …

The analysis of authentic speech, unlike that of laboratory speech, needs to take into
account the fact that the fundamental frequency patterns corresponding to the intonation of …

Pitch visualizers used as teaching devices could be more effective if the fundamental
frequency curves displayed were segmented into syllabic portions. Furthermore, the …

This study is about an approach that formulates an explicit way from continuous acoustic
parameters to discrete and abstract phonological entities. The method is implemented in a …