The Parsody system: automatic prediction of prosodic boundaries for text-to-speech

  • Authors:
  • Stephen Minnis

  • Affiliations:
  • Natural Language Group, Systems Research Division, BT Laboratories, Ipswich, UK

  • Venue:
  • COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

As commercial text-to-speech systems move above the word level to the sentence level, the prediction of the correct prosodic informations becomes a significant factor in the perceived naturalness of the synthesised speech.This article reports on "Parsody", an experimental system which combines a partial parser with a prosodic marking component to predict the location and relative strength of prosodic boundaries in text.