Introducing Advancing Prosodic Transcription

Introducing the SEA_AP: an Enhanced Tool for Automatic Prosodic Analysis

SEA_AP (Segmentador e Etiquetador Automático para Análise Prosódica, Automatic Segmentation and Labelling for Prosodic Analysis) toolkit is an application that performs audio segmentation and labelling to create a TextGrid file which will be used to launch a prosodic analysis using Praat. In this paper, we want to describe the improved functionality of the tool achieved by adding a dialectometr...

Cross-linguistic Prosodic Transcription: French versus English

Semi-Automatic Prosodic Transcription of Spoken Spanish in XML

XML (Extensible Mark-up Language) is designed to represent hierarchical structures; in this case, it shows the structure of the prosodic components of spoken language. The XML-based transcription system proposed here allows the input of 1) the phonetic parameters of F0, intensity and duration of each syllable, their relative variation and standard values to facilitate discrimination and compari...

Automatic Transcription of Prosodic Stress for Spontaneous English Discourse

The role of duration, amplitude and fundamental frequency of syllabic vocalic nuclei is investigated for marking prosodic stress in spontaneous American English discourse. Local maxima of di erent evidence variables, implemented as combinations of the three basic parameters { duration, amplitude and pitch {, are supposed to be related with prosodic stress. As reference, two di erent subsets fro...

Towards a Pan-Mandarin System for Prosodic Transcription

11.1 Introduction This chapter describes the initial stages of development of a Pan-Mandarin ToBI system. We will review the salient prosodic characteristics of Mandarin, with particular attention to the range of variability within a common structural core, and then propose an initial codification of conventions for marking prosodic structure in two standard varieties and one regional variety o...