This paper presents a model that assigns prosodic structure to unrestricted text. The model is linguistically motivated and also uses constraints on phrase length. For the implementation an XML-pipeline is used as a data-architecture. The output can be processed by a text-to-speech synthesiser for determining the locations of phrase breaks. The model outperforms another rule-based approach, and achieves either comparable results as a statistical model or comes close to those results, while being psychologically more plausible.
Cite as: Atterer, M. (2002) Assigning prosodic structure for speech synthesis: a rule-based approach. Proc. Speech Prosody 2002, 147-150
@inproceedings{atterer02_speechprosody,
author={Michaela Atterer},
title={{Assigning prosodic structure for speech synthesis: a rule-based approach}},
year=2002,
booktitle={Proc. Speech Prosody 2002},
pages={147--150}
}