… as analysis-by-introspection, analysis-by-transcription, analysis-by-hypothesis-testing and
analysis-… much more linking and integration between different subareas of prosody research. …

This thesis addresses the issue of modelling speech prosody for speech synthesis and presents
MeLos: a complete system for the analysis and modelling of speech prosody, "the music …

… speech prosody is not simply about tones and intonation, and how additional but crucial
prosodic information could be analyzed… demonstrate that fluent speech prosody contains higher-…

… In this paper we concentrate on the tool for the automatic analysis of segmental duration. …
with the analysis of other prosodic parameters. The analysis of the prosodic structure of speech …

… -level system of annotation could be of interest for speech synthesis and automatic speech
recognition as well as for fundamental research into the linguistic analysis of speech prosody. …

… for further prosodic analyses and suggestions for how these might be undertaken. Finally,
I include a sample of a prosodic analysis applied to the particular area of discourse analysis …

… This is particularly evident in the area of speech prosody. The analysis by synthesis paradigm
is … If the representation derived from a model can be used as input to a speech synthesis …

… We analyzed speech corpora of read Mandarin Chinese discourses from a top–down … for
fluent speech prosody which is essentially discourse prosody rather than sentence prosody, …

… Here we present a wavelet based visualization and analysis tool for prosodic patterns, in
particular intonation. The suitability of the method is assessed by comparing its predictions for …

… analysis by synthesis of speech prosody. The analysis is based on the symbolic representation
of prosodic form without reference to prosodic function. The parameters of the model are …