TY - GEN
T1 - Speaking-Rate Effect on Prosodic Grammar of Mandarin Read Speech
AU - Hong, Yu Siang
AU - Chiang, Chen Yu
AU - Wang, Yih Ru
AU - Chen, Sin Horng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The effect of speaking rate (SR) on the prosodic grammar of Mandarin read speech inferred previously is investigated. A speech corpus comprising four parallel subcorpora with different SR of fast, normal, medium and slow is used in the study. The changes of the break-Type distributions at critical junctures of the syntactic patterns considered in the two sets of prosodic grammatical rules due to the SR change are explored. Based on the variations of break-Type distribution, the SR influence for a juncture is characterized by three newly-defined matrices: prosodic boundary strength, occurrence of strong break, and non-paused break probability range. Experimental results showed that the SR influence varies wildly from juncture to juncture. For most junctures, the SR effect mainly lies in the occurrences of many BNP to BPW changes as SR decreases from fast to slow, while the two strong paused breaks of BPPh and BPG are affected slightly.
AB - The effect of speaking rate (SR) on the prosodic grammar of Mandarin read speech inferred previously is investigated. A speech corpus comprising four parallel subcorpora with different SR of fast, normal, medium and slow is used in the study. The changes of the break-Type distributions at critical junctures of the syntactic patterns considered in the two sets of prosodic grammatical rules due to the SR change are explored. Based on the variations of break-Type distribution, the SR influence for a juncture is characterized by three newly-defined matrices: prosodic boundary strength, occurrence of strong break, and non-paused break probability range. Experimental results showed that the SR influence varies wildly from juncture to juncture. For most junctures, the SR effect mainly lies in the occurrences of many BNP to BPW changes as SR decreases from fast to slow, while the two strong paused breaks of BPPh and BPG are affected slightly.
KW - Mandarin read speech
KW - phonological structure
KW - prosodic grammar
KW - speaking rate
KW - syntactic pattern
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U2 - 10.1109/O-COCOSDA202257103.2022.9997893
DO - 10.1109/O-COCOSDA202257103.2022.9997893
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85146369989
T3 - 2022 25th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-Ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, O-COCOSDA 2022 - Proceedings
BT - 2022 25th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-Ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, O-COCOSDA 2022 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 25th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA International Committee for the Co-Ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, O-COCOSDA 2022
Y2 - 24 November 2022 through 26 November 2022
ER -