Sökning: "prosodic boundaries"

Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden prosodic boundaries.

  1. 1. Improving an Italian TTS System : Voice Based Rules for Word Boundaries' Phenomena

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Författare :Laura Rossetti; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Natural language processing; Text-to-speech; NLP; TTS; unit selection; rules; Italian; computational linguistics; speech technology;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis project aimed at improving a commercial Italian Unit Selection system by obtaining a higher agreement between the internal target representation produced by the text analysis component and the recordings in the speech database. Precisely this has been done by implementing new transformation rules that are applied on the input text during the text normalization and just after the grapheme-to-phoneme (g2p) module. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Respiratory patterns and turn-taking in spontaneous Estonian : Inhalation amplitude in multiparty conversations

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för fonetik

    Författare :Kätlin Aare; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Speech breathing; turn-taking; prosodic boundaries; utterance initiation; respiratory physiology; Estonian spontaneous speech; Andning i tal; turtagning; prosodiska gränser; initiering av yttrande; respirationsfysiologi; estniskt spontantal;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the relationship between inhalation amplitude and turn-taking in spontaneous multiparty conversations held in Estonian. Respiratory activity is recorded with Respiratory Inductance Plethysmography. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Signaling discourse structure: the marking of discourse topic boundaries in Jahai and Mah Meri spontaneous narratives

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Författare :Otto Ewald; [2013]
    Nyckelord :Mah Meri; Jahai; prosody; discourse topic; discourse structure; Austroasiatic; Aslian; particles; pitch; duration; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : This study has examined how the right edge of a discourse topic is signaled through the use of F0, duration, and particles in the two Aslian languages Jahai and Mah Meri. The goals of this study were to contribute to the knowledge of these languages, compare them to the related Kammu language in the search for similarities that could be applied to Austroasiatic as a whole, and to explore what kind of analysis is possible with a material not collected for prosodic research. LÄS MER

  5. 4. When a Native Becomes Foreign in his/her Own Homeland: A Review of the Foreign Accent Syndrome : A Review of the Foreign Accent Syndrome

    Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för kommunikation och information

    Författare :Marieide Guimaraes Svensson; [2012]
    Nyckelord :Foreign accent syndrome; segmental; apraxia of speech; DIVA;

    Sammanfattning : FAS is a speech disorder characterized by changes to the normal speech patterns of the native language. This speech impairment is usually due to stroke or brain injury. Segmental, suprasegmental and prosodic features are altered. FAS speakers’ speech is perceived as foreign rather than disordered. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Assessing the Relevance of Prosodic and Phonotactic Cues on Parsing the Speech Stream by Young Language-Learners

    Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för fonetik

    Författare :Eeva Koponen; Eeva Klintfors; [2001]
    Nyckelord :language acquisition;

    Sammanfattning : This is a study about how one-year-old Swedish-learning infants presumably use probabilistic information, such as prosody and phonotactic regularity, in segmentation of speech. The variables studied were the Swedish tonal word accents I & II and the distributional regularities of within-word and between-word consonant clusters in Swedish infant-directed speech. LÄS MER