This paper presents ProZed, an environment for the multilingual analysis by synthesis of speech prosody. The analysis is based on the symbolic representation of prosodic form without reference to prosodic function. The parameters of the model are at present limited to fundamental frequency and duration but the same framework could be extended to accomodate other parameters such as spectral tilt...

This paper proposes an algorithm for finding phonological phrase boundaries in sentences with neutral focus spoken in both normal and fast tempos. A perceptual experiment is designed using Praat’s experiment MFC program to investigate the phonological phrase boundaries. Phonological phrasing and its relation to syntactic structure in the framework of the endbased rules proposed by (Selkirk, 198...

An extensive study on the parameters influencing the pitch of a standard speaker in articulatory speech synthesis is presented. The speech synthesiser used is the articulatory synthesiser in PRAAT. Categorically, the repercussion of two parameters: Lungs and Cricothyroid on the average pitch of the synthesised sounds is studied. Statistical analysis of synthesis data proclaim the extent to whic...

The present study investigated the effect of using PRAAT as a free computer software package for the scientific analysis of speech in phonetics on pre-intermediate Iranian English as foreign language (EFL) learners’ supra segmental features (i.e., intonation and stress). The design of the study was a Quasi-experimental research design with a pre and post-test. In doing so...