Generation and perception of F0 markedness in conversational speech with adverbs expressing degrees

Takumi Yamashita; Yoshinori Sagisaka

Generation and perception of F₀ markedness in conversational speech with adverbs expressing degrees

Takumi Yamashita, Yoshinori Sagisaka

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Abstract

Aiming at natural F₀ control for conversational speech synthesis, F₀ characteristics are analyzed from both generation and perception viewpoints. By systematically designing conversational situations and utterances with adverb phrases expressing different degree of markedness, their F₀ characteristics are compared. The comparison shows the consistent F₀ control dependencies not only on adverbs themselves but also on the attribute of neighboring adjective phrases. Strong positive/negative correlation is observed between the markedness of adverbs and F₀ height when an adjective phrase with a positive/negative image is followed to the current adverb phrase. These consistencies have been perceptually confirmed by naturalness evaluation tests using the same two-phrase samples with different F₀ heights. These results indicate the possibility of F₀ control for natural conversational speech using lexical markdness information and adjacent word attributes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association
Pages	173-176
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2003
Event	8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003 - Geneva, Switzerland Duration: 2003 Sept 1 → 2003 Sept 4

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Other	8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Geneva
Period	03/9/1 → 03/9/4

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Computer Science Applications
Software
Linguistics and Language
Communication

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Generation and perception of F₀ markedness in conversational speech with adverbs expressing degrees. / Yamashita, Takumi; Sagisaka, Yoshinori.
EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. International Speech Communication Association, 2003. p. 173-176.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Yamashita, T & Sagisaka, Y 2003, Generation and perception of F₀ markedness in conversational speech with adverbs expressing degrees. in EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. International Speech Communication Association, pp. 173-176, 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, Geneva, Switzerland, 03/9/1.

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