In this paper, we explore how to construct stylistic TTS databases from audio books, in which a storyteller performs multiple roles. The goal is to identify and build a set of speech corpora, each of which not only portrays a representative voice style performed by the speaker, but also has sufficient sentences to synthesize natural speech using unit selection approach. We solve the problem in ...

This paper investigates stylistic changes in a set of Portuguese historical texts ranging from the 17 to the early 20 century and presents a supervised method to classify them per century. Four stylistic features – average sentence length (ASL), average word length (AWL), lexical density (LD), and lexical richness (LR) – were automatically extracted for each sub-corpus. The initial analysis of ...

E-mail has become, in recent years, due to the increasing use of the Internet, one of the most common, if not, the most important means of business and personal communication. At the end of the 20th century, e-mail was widely adopted as a means of communication between companies, replacing many of the functions of workplace memoranda. It is a main communication medium and the corporate world co...

The article is devoted to the problem of identification and systematization stylistic means journalistic film texts according their linguosemiotic status. With help a number general scientific (observation, comparison, generalization, quantitative calculations) special (descriptive, functional) methods, Ukrainian-language films A. Galimov, Romanidi, H. Kovalenko were investigated. author explai...