To get good understanding of prosody in continuous speech of Standard Chinese, we have collected large amount of speech in paragraph. 18 read discourse each contains 300-500 syllables are used as reading texts, which cover main discourse We are going effort on linguistic annotation. In This paper we report works reported as follows: One male speaker's 10,000 syllables duration in discourse; the relationship between silence duration in discourse waveform and the prosodic structures.
Cite as: Zu, Y., Chan, X., Li, A., Hua, W., Sun, G. (2000) Syllable duration and its functions in standard Chinese discourse. Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), vol. 3, 199-202
@inproceedings{zu00_icslp,
author={Yiqing Zu and Xiaoxia Chan and Aijun Li and Wu Hua and Guohua Sun},
title={{Syllable duration and its functions in standard Chinese discourse}},
year=2000,
booktitle={Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000)},
pages={vol. 3, 199-202}
}