The idea of the composed syllable segments for syllable based concatenative speech synthesis is described in the paper. The use of the composed syllable segments essentially reduces the number of elementary segments that have to be extracted from samples to create the speech segment database. The experiments show that the quality of the synthesized speech that is obtained by using composed syll...

The study investigates the effect of speech rate on the temporal organization of syllable production of in Hong Kong Cantonese. The results show that all the component segments of the test syllables, including the vowel-nasal transitions and elementelement transitions in the diphthongs, contribute to the reduction of the entire syllable durations in fast speech. While the percentages of duratio...

In this paper we propose a two-stage duration model using neural networks for predicting the duration of syllables in Indian languages. The proposed model consists of three feedforward neural networks for predicting the duration of syllable in specific intervals and a syllable classifier, which has to predict the probability that a given syllable falls into an interval. Autoassociative neural n...

Syllable-based compression achieves sufficiently good results on text documents of a medium size. Since the majority of XML documents are of that size, we suppose that the syllable-based method can give good results on XML documents, especially on documents that have a simple structure (small amount of elements and attributes) and relatively long character data content. In this paper we propose...

An approach to automatic detection of syllable structure is presented. We demonstrate a novel application of EM-based clustering to multivariate data, exempli ed by the induction of 3and 5-dimensional probabilistic syllable classes. The qualitative evaluation shows that the method yields phonologically meaningful syllable classes. We then propose a novel approach to grapheme-to-phoneme conversi...

Prominence has been widely studied on the word level and the syllable level. An extensive study comparing the two approaches is missing in the literature. This study investigates how word and syllable prominence relate to each other in German. We find that perceptual ratings based on the word level are more extreme than those based on the syllable level. The correlations between word prominence...

An experiment was carried out to examine the possibility of word-final F0 rise without lengthening in French. The results show that, although a variability is observed depending on speaker, syllable structure and syllable number, the final rise can be unaccompanied by vowel lengthening in the phrasemedian final syllable of a noun, in difference to the phrasefinal syllable which is lengthened to...

1. INTRODUCTION This paper reports the results of an investigation into the production and perception of Korean word-level prosody. The production study examines the effects of syllable weight and syllable position on syllable duration, vowel duration, onset duration, coda duration, and fundamental frequency of Seoul Korean. We also examine what attributes of a syllable cause it to be perceived...