In this paper, a new approach to syllable-based modeling of F0 contour, duration and energy for isolated Mandarin words is proposed. The syllable F0 contour model considers three major affecting factors, including lexical tone, syllable position in a word and inter-syllable coarticulation effect; while both the duration and energy models additionally consider one more affecting factor of base syllable type. Experimental results on a large single-speaker database showed that the method performed very well. Based on the prosodic model, a learning system for Mandarin word prosody pronunciation is designed and implemented for nonnative speakers. Index Terms— Prosody modeling, inter-syllable coarticulation effect, Mandarin word prosody pronunciation
Cite as: Shih, H.-K., Chiang, C.-Y., Wang, Y.-R., Chen, S.-H. (2008) Prosodic Modeling for Isolated Mandarin Words and Its Application. Proc. International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 233-236
@inproceedings{shih08_iscslp,
author={Hung-Kuang Shih and Chen-Yu Chiang and Yih-Ru Wang and Sin-Horng Chen},
title={{Prosodic Modeling for Isolated Mandarin Words and Its Application}},
year=2008,
booktitle={Proc. International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing},
pages={233--236}
}