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

Annotations Relating Pitch to Laryngealization Information

Kathleen M. Murray

Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

When people speak, there is a noticeable tune to their voice that can convey important information apart from just the words themselves; pitch is a word that often describes this tune. This statement summarizes annotations that relate pitch to other information for use in future dialogue research.

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Bibliographic reference.  Murray, Kathleen M. (2001): "Annotations relating pitch to laryngealization information ", In Prosody-2001, paper 30.