{"id":92,"date":"2012-08-14T11:11:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T16:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prosodylab\/?p=92"},"modified":"2012-08-14T11:22:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T16:22:54","slug":"interspeech-2012-paper-perceptual-foundations-for-naturalistic-variability-in-the-prosody-of-synthetic-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prosodylab\/2012\/08\/14\/interspeech-2012-paper-perceptual-foundations-for-naturalistic-variability-in-the-prosody-of-synthetic-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Interspeech 2012 Paper: Perceptual Foundations for Naturalistic Variability in the Prosody of Synthetic Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nanette Veilleux, Jonathan Barnes, Alejna Brugos &amp; Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (2012) &#8220;Perceptual Foundations for Naturalistic Variability in the Prosody of Synthetic Speech,&#8221; Poster to be presented at <a href=\"http:\/\/interspeech2012.org\/\">Interspeech 2012<\/a>, September 9-13, Portland, Oregon. [<a href='http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prosodylab\/files\/2012\/08\/veilleux_et_al-interspeech2012.pdf'>pdf<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>This poster will be included in a session entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/interspeech2012.org\/accepted-papers.html#Speech%20Synthesis:%20Selected%20Topics\">Speech Synthesis: Selected Topics<\/a>,&#8221; on Thursday, September 13th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br \/>\nRecent studies have shown that the Tonal Center of Gravity is a better classifier than F0 Turning Points for at least two contrastively timed pitch accents in American English intonation contours. Within this framework, a binary F0 weighting function derived from the F0 contour can be used instead of the natural F0 contour without a degradation in discrimination performance. This success has important implications for speech synthesis. Just as we can capture the functional equivalence of a multitude of auditorily distinct F0 contour shapes in terms of their mapping to a single parameter (the TCoG) via a set of binary weighting functions, this same mapping could be run in reverse as a source to generate natural-sounding variability in speech synthesis.<br \/>\n<strong>Index Terms:<\/strong> Tonal Center of Gravity, F0 alignment, pitch accent classification, prosody, speech synthesis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanette Veilleux, Jonathan Barnes, Alejna Brugos &amp; Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (2012) &#8220;Perceptual Foundations for Naturalistic Variability in the Prosody of Synthetic Speech,&#8221; Poster to be presented at Interspeech 2012, September 9-13, Portland, Oregon. [pdf] This poster will be included in a session entitled &#8220;Speech Synthesis: Selected Topics,&#8221; on Thursday, September 13th. Abstract Recent studies have shown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7621,10072,7736],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prosodylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prosodylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prosodylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prosodylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prosodylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prosodylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prosodylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prosodylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prosodylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/prosodylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}