Does prosody help word recognition? In this paper, we propose a novel probabilistic framework in which word and phoneme are dependent on prosody in a way that improves word recognition. We describe the idea of prosody dependent speech recognition by building a prosody dependent speech recognizer that conditions word and phoneme models on two important prosodic variables: intonational phrase bou...

As the difficulty of revealing the relationship between text and prosody, a corpus based approach is used in prosody generation in the research. A prosody database is built as templates for prosody generation. The general idea is that we are trying to get the prosodic information from real speech examples. We first analyze given Chinese text, and form a linguistic feature vector, which describe...

Within a polyglot text-to-speech synthesis system, the generation of an adequate prosody for mixed-lingual texts, sentences, or even words, requires a polyglot prosody model that is able to seamlessly switch between languages and that applies the same voice for all languages. This paper presents the first polyglot prosody model that fulfills these requirements and that is constructed from indep...

The newly-developed prosody module of our text-to-speech (TTS) system is described in the paper. We present two main works on it’s establishment and improvement. On the basis of potential factors influencing prosody parameters, inclusive of duration, pitch and intensity, the prosody model is built as groundwork of this module which is superior to the former rule-based one in generation of natur...

We propose a method for concatenative speech synthesis that permits to obtain a better matching between the logF0 and duration predicted by the prosody module and the waveform generation back-end. The proposed method is based upon our previous multilevel parametric F0 model and Toshiba’s plural unit selection and fusion synthesizer. The method adds a feedback loop from the back-end into the pro...

People with schizophrenia show well-replicated deficits on tasks of explicit recognition of emotional prosody. However it remains unclear whether they are still sensitive to the implicit cues of emotional prosody, particularly when they exhibit high levels of social anhedonia. A dual processing model suggesting a dissociation between the neural networks involved in explicit and implicit recogni...

BACKGROUND The Prosody-Voice Screening Profile PVSP. A final section provides detailed (PVSP) is a perceptual procedure to assess a prosody-voice reference data for children with speaker's prosody and voice in conversational normal speech-language development and speech. The PVSP provides summative and children with speech-language disorders of per-utterance data on the appropriateness of known...

Recent evidence suggests a relative right-hemispheric specialization for emotional prosody perception, whereas linguistic prosody perception is under bilateral control. It is still unknown, however, how the hemispheric specialization for prosody perception might arise. Two main hypotheses have been put forward. Cue-dependent hypotheses, on the one hand, propose that hemispheric specialization i...