The Information structure–prosody interface in text-to-speech technologies: an empirical perspective

The correspondence between the communicative intention of a speaker in terms of Information Structure and the way this speaker reflects communicative aspects by means of prosody have been a fruitful field of study in Linguistics. However, text-to-speech applications still lack the variability and ri...

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Autores: Domínguez Bajo, Mónica, Farrús, Mireia, Wanner, Leo
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Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2020-0008
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Palabra clave:Communicative structure
Information structure
Intonation
Prosody
Rheme
Specifier
Thematicity
Theme
ToBI
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spelling The Information structure–prosody interface in text-to-speech technologies: an empirical perspectiveDomínguez Bajo, MónicaFarrús, MireiaWanner, LeoCommunicative structureInformation structureIntonationProsodyRhemeSpecifierThematicityThemeToBIThe correspondence between the communicative intention of a speaker in terms of Information Structure and the way this speaker reflects communicative aspects by means of prosody have been a fruitful field of study in Linguistics. However, text-to-speech applications still lack the variability and richness found in human speech in terms of how humans display their communication skills. Some attempts were made in the past to model one aspect of Information Structure, namely thematicity for its application to intonation generation in text-to-speech technologies. Yet these applications suffer from two limitations: (i) they draw upon a small number of made-up simple question-answer pairs rather than on real (spoken or written) corpus material; and (ii) they do not explore whether any other interpretation would better suit a wider range of textual genres beyond dialogues. In this paper, two different interpretations of thematicity in the field of speech technologies are examined: the state-of-art binary (and flat) theme-rheme, and the hierarchical thematicity defined by Igor Mel’ˇcuk within the Meaning-Text Theory. The outcome of the experiments on a corpus of native speakers of US English suggests that the latter interpretation of thematicity has a versatile implementation potential for text-to-speech applications of the Information Structure-–prosody interfaceThis work has been partially funded by the European Commission in the context of its H2020 Programme under the contract numbers H2020-645012-RIA (KRISTINA) and H2020-870930-IA (WELCOME). The second author has been funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigaci´on (AEI), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaci´on y Universidades and the Fondo Social Europeo (FSE), grant RYC2015-17239 (AEI/FSE, UE).De Gruyter20212021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/47009http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2020-0008reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésCorpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 2021info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/645012info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/870930info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/RYC2015-17239© De Gruyter Published version available at https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/cllt-2020-0008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2020-0008info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/470092026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The Information structure–prosody interface in text-to-speech technologies: an empirical perspective
title The Information structure–prosody interface in text-to-speech technologies: an empirical perspective
spellingShingle The Information structure–prosody interface in text-to-speech technologies: an empirical perspective
Domínguez Bajo, Mónica
Communicative structure
Information structure
Intonation
Prosody
Rheme
Specifier
Thematicity
Theme
ToBI
title_short The Information structure–prosody interface in text-to-speech technologies: an empirical perspective
title_full The Information structure–prosody interface in text-to-speech technologies: an empirical perspective
title_fullStr The Information structure–prosody interface in text-to-speech technologies: an empirical perspective
title_full_unstemmed The Information structure–prosody interface in text-to-speech technologies: an empirical perspective
title_sort The Information structure–prosody interface in text-to-speech technologies: an empirical perspective
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Domínguez Bajo, Mónica
Farrús, Mireia
Wanner, Leo
author Domínguez Bajo, Mónica
author_facet Domínguez Bajo, Mónica
Farrús, Mireia
Wanner, Leo
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author2 Farrús, Mireia
Wanner, Leo
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Communicative structure
Information structure
Intonation
Prosody
Rheme
Specifier
Thematicity
Theme
ToBI
topic Communicative structure
Information structure
Intonation
Prosody
Rheme
Specifier
Thematicity
Theme
ToBI
description The correspondence between the communicative intention of a speaker in terms of Information Structure and the way this speaker reflects communicative aspects by means of prosody have been a fruitful field of study in Linguistics. However, text-to-speech applications still lack the variability and richness found in human speech in terms of how humans display their communication skills. Some attempts were made in the past to model one aspect of Information Structure, namely thematicity for its application to intonation generation in text-to-speech technologies. Yet these applications suffer from two limitations: (i) they draw upon a small number of made-up simple question-answer pairs rather than on real (spoken or written) corpus material; and (ii) they do not explore whether any other interpretation would better suit a wider range of textual genres beyond dialogues. In this paper, two different interpretations of thematicity in the field of speech technologies are examined: the state-of-art binary (and flat) theme-rheme, and the hierarchical thematicity defined by Igor Mel’ˇcuk within the Meaning-Text Theory. The outcome of the experiments on a corpus of native speakers of US English suggests that the latter interpretation of thematicity has a versatile implementation potential for text-to-speech applications of the Information Structure-–prosody interface
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