This paper introduces a prosodic phrasing method in Korean to improve the naturalness of speech synthesis, especially in text-tospeech conversion. In prosodic phrasing, it is necessary to understand the structure of a sentence through a language pro-cessing procedure, such as POS tagging and parsing, since syn-tactic structure correlates better with the prosodic structure of speech than with other factors. In this paper, the prosodic phrasing procedure is treated from two perspectives: dependency parsing and prosodic phrasing using dependency relations. This is appropriate for Ural-Altaic, since a prosodic boundary in speech usually concurs with a gov-ernor of dependency relation. From experimental results, using the proposed method achieved 12% improvement in prosody boundary prediction accuracy with a speech corpus consisting 300 sentences uttered by 3 speakers.
Cite as: Kim, Y.-J., Byeon, H.-J., Oh, Y.-H. (1999) Prosodic phrasing in korean, determine governor, and then split or not. Proc. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1999), 539-542, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1999-139
@inproceedings{kim99_eurospeech,
author={Yeon-Jun Kim and Heo-Jin Byeon and Yung-Hwan Oh},
title={{Prosodic phrasing in korean, determine governor, and then split or not}},
year=1999,
booktitle={Proc. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1999)},
pages={539--542},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1999-139}
}