Linguistically motivated parameter estimation methods for a superpositional intonation model

This paper proposes two novel approaches for parameter estimation of a superpositional intonation model. These approaches present linguistic and paralinguistic assumptions for initializing a pre-existing standard method. In addition, all restrictions on the configuration of commands were eliminated....

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Autores: Torres, Humberto Maximiliano, Gurlekian, Jorge Alberto, Mixdorff, Hansjörg, Pfitzinger, Hartmut
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/18577
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/18577
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Superpositional F0 modeling
Automatic F0 contour estimation
Fujisaki model
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2
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Sumario:This paper proposes two novel approaches for parameter estimation of a superpositional intonation model. These approaches present linguistic and paralinguistic assumptions for initializing a pre-existing standard method. In addition, all restrictions on the configuration of commands were eliminated. The proposed linguistic hypotheses can be based on either pitch accents or lexical stress, which give rise to two different estimation methods. These two hypotheses were validated by comparison of the estimation performance relative to two standard methods, one manual and one automatic. The results of the experiments for German, English and Spanish corpora show that the proposed methods outperform the standard ones.