A new method for speech delexicalization, and its application to the perception of French prosody
- 24 December 2002
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Vol. 2, 821-824
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icslp.1996.607727
Abstract
The paper describes a perception experiment which aims at testing the ability of subjects to discriminate prosodic boundaries when provided with fundamental frequency and duration. Their task consists of listening to a high quality speech synthesizer producing nonsense speech that copies the prosodic parameters of a French corpus. Subjects mark boundary syllables with a device that synchronizes sound and orthographic transcription. Results show that the delexicalization procedure is ecological, and that duration strongly influences the perception of fundamental frequency.Keywords
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