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PROSODIC MODELING FOR ISOLATED MANDARIN WORDS AND ITS APPLICATION
(2008)
Shih, Hung-Kuang
;
Chiang, Chen-Yu
;
Wang, Yih-Ru
;
Chen, Sin-Horng
;
電信工程研究所
In this paper, a new approach to syllable-based modeling of F0 contour, duration and energy for isolated Mandarin words is proposed. The syllable F0 contour model considers three major affecting factors, including lexical tone, syllable position in a word and inter-syllable coarticulation effect; while both the duration and energy models additionally consider one more affecting factor of base syllable type. Experimental results on a large single-speaker database showed that the method performed very well. Based on the prosodic model, a teaming system for Mandarin word prosody pronunciation is designed and implemented for nonnative speakers.