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| Title: | Generating Fo contours from ToBI labels using linear regression |
| Authors: | Black, Alan W
Hunt, Andrew |
| Issue Date: | Oct-1996 |
| Citation: | Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on, Volume 3, 3-6 Oct. 1996 Page(s):1385 - 1388. |
| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Abstract: | This paper describes a method for generating F0 contours from ToBI labelled utterances. The method uses linear regression to predict F0 target values for the start, mid-vowel and end of every syllable, using features representing the ToBI labels, stress and syllable position. Contours generated by this method for an English database have a correlation of 0.62 and 34.8 Hz RMS error when compared with originals from test data. These results are significant improvements on a previous rule driven method (0.40 and 44.7), and the new method contours are preferred by human listeners. The technique has also been successfully applied to Japanese ToBI with similar improvements. |
| URI: | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
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| Appears in Collections: | CSTR publications
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