On the inter-syllable coarticulation effect of pitch modeling for mandarin speech

Chen Yu Chiang; Yih-Ru Wang; Sin-Horng Chen

On the inter-syllable coarticulation effect of pitch modeling for mandarin speech

Chen Yu Chiang^*, Yih-Ru Wang, Sin-Horng Chen

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Abstract

In this paper, a new statistics-based pitch model for Mandarin speech is proposed. The model considers three major affecting factors on the syllable pitch contour, including lexical tone, prosodic state and inter-syllable coarticulation effect. The study emphasizes on the modeling of inter-syllable coarticulation effect. Interactive affections of neighboring tones and different inter-syllable coarticulation states are considered. Experimental results show that the model performed well even for connected pitch contours of several syllables. Automatic labeling of linguistically meaningful coarticulation states is an extra benefit. So it is a promising F0 model.

Original language	English
Pages	3269-3272
Number of pages	4
State	Published - Sep 2005
Event	9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 4 Sep 2005 → 8 Sep 2005

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Conference	9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	4/09/05 → 8/09/05

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