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Title Labeling of Prosodic Events in Slovenian Speech Database GOPOLIS
Authors Mihelič France (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Tržaška 25, 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia, mihelicf@fe.uni-lj.si)
Gros Jerneja (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Tržaška 25, 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia, nejka@fe.uni-lj.si)
Nöth Elmar (Lehrstuhl für Mustererkennung (Informatik 5), Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Martensstrasse 3, 91058 Erlangen, BRD, noeth@informatik.uni-erlangen.de)
Warnke Volker (Lehrstuhl für Mustererkennung (Informatik 5), Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Martensstrasse 3, 91058 Erlangen, BRD, warnke@informatik.uni-erlangen.de)
Keywords Labeling, Prosodic Boundaries, Prosody, Speech Database, Word Accent
Session Session SP1 - Phonetic Issues and Speech Synthesis
Full Paper 292.ps, 292.pdf
Abstract The paper describes prosodic annotation procedures of the GOPOLIS Slovenian speech data database and methods for automatic classi-fication of different prosodic events. Several statistical parameters concerning duration and loudness of words, syllables and allophones were computed for the Slovenian language, for the first time on such a large amount of speech data. The evaluation of the annotated data showed a close match between automatically determined syntactic-prosodic boundary marker positions and those obtained by a rule-based approach. The obtained knowledge on Slovenian prosody can be used in Slovenian speech recognition and understanding for automatic prosodic event determination and in Slovenian speech synthesis for prosody prediction.