Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding October 22-24, 2001 Molly Pitcher Inn, Red Bank, NJ, USA

A Prosodically Labeled Database of Spontaneous Speech

Mari Ostendorf (1), I. Shafran (1), Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (2), L. Carmichael (1), W. Byrne (3)

(1) University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
(2) MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
(3) John Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA 11213

This paper describes a prosodically labeled database of conversational speech, representing a subset of the Switchboard and Callhome corpora. The prosodic transcription system is a simplification of the ToBI system aimed at phenomena that would be most useful for automatic transcription and linguistic analysis of conversational speech. The transcription method and a distributional analysis of the types of prosodic events are described.

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Bibliographic reference.  Ostendorf, Mari / Shafran, I. / Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie / Carmichael, L. / Byrne, W. (2001): "A prosodically labeled database of spontaneous speech", In Prosody-2001, paper 22.