This paper examines whether prosodic information is usefully indicative of urgency and related attributes of situations in news broadcasts. We find that, in all 8 languages studied, prosody is informative. We also find some predictive value in cross-language modeling, suggesting the possibility of universal tendencies.
Cite as: Ward, N., Jodoin, J., Nath, A., Fuentes, O. (2020) Using Prosody to Find Mentions of Urgent Problems in Radio Broadcasts. Proc. Speech Prosody 2020, 660-664, doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-135
@inproceedings{ward20_speechprosody,
author={Nigel Ward and James Jodoin and Anindita Nath and Olac Fuentes},
title={{Using Prosody to Find Mentions of Urgent Problems in Radio Broadcasts}},
year=2020,
booktitle={Proc. Speech Prosody 2020},
pages={660--664},
doi={10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-135}
}