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Visualization of Prosodic Knowledge Using Corpus Driven MEMOInt Intonation Modelling

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Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2006)

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In this work we show how our intonation corpus driven intonation modelling methodology MEMOInt can help in the graphical visualization of the complex relationships between the different prosodic features which configure the intonational aspects of natural speech. MEMOInt has already been used successfully for the prediction of synthetic F0 contours in the presence of the usual data scarcity problems. Now, we report on the possibilities of using the information gathered in the modelling phase in order to provide a graphical view of the relevance of the various prosodic features which affect the typical F0 movements. The set of classes which group the intonation patterns found in the corpus can be structured in a tree in which the relation between the classes and the prosodic features of the input text is hierarchically correlated. This visual outcome shows to be very useful to carry out comparative linguistic studies of prosodic phenomena and to check the correspondence between previous prosodic knowledge on a language and the real utterances found in a given corpus.

This work has been partially sponsored by Spanish Government (MCYT project TIC2003-08382-C05-03) and by Consejeria de Educacion (JCYL project VA053A05).

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  1. University of Valladolid, Valladolid, 47014, Spain

    David Escudero-Mancebo & Valentín Cardeñoso-Payo

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  1. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Sojka

  2. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, CZ-602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Ivan Kopeček

  3. Faculty of Informatics, Department of Computer Graphics and Design, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 60200, Brno, Czech Republic

    Karel Pala

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Escudero-Mancebo, D., Cardeñoso-Payo, V. (2006). Visualization of Prosodic Knowledge Using Corpus Driven MEMOInt Intonation Modelling. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4188. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11846406_81

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