Individual and contextual variations of prosodic parameters
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چکیده
This is a summary of variabilities and co-variation of prosodic parameters found in our studies of text reading and in the development of text-to-speech synthesis. In addition to F0, duration and intensity, the survey includes aspects of voice production and perception. The role of sub-glottal pressure is discussed. Speech parameters have been correlated with our continuously graded prominence parameter RS. Individual variations in pausing and the realisation of prosodic boundaries have been studied.
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