The Prosodic Marking of Phrase Boundaries: Expectations and Results
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Using sentence templates and a stochastic context-free grammar a large corpus (10,000 sentences) has been created, where prosodic phrase boundaries are labeled in the sentences automatically during sentence generation. With perception experiments on a subset of 500 utterances we verified that 92% of the automatically marked boundaries were perceived as prosodically marked. In initial automatic classification experiments for three levels of boundaries recognition rates up to 81% could be achieved. 1.
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