An F0 Contour Model in Chinese Based on Templates of Prosodic Words
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چکیده
The problem of F0 contour generation in Chinese are addressed in this paper. An F0 contour model based on templates of prosodic words is proposed. Taking templates of prosodic word F0 contour as the basic units, the basic structure of the model is established with references to the “small ripples on top of big waves theory” and “Fujisaki model”. A three-layer prosodic hierarchy which consists of prosodic word, prosodic phrase and intonational phrase, is used in the model. The performance of the model was evaluated by listening experiments. Reported results have shown that the proposed model based on templates of prosodic words performs better than the model based on syllable unit.
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