Using discourse context to guide pitch accent decisions in synthetic speech

Julia Hirschberg

The paper describes the assignment of PITCH ACCENT in NewSpeak, an interface to the Bell Laboratories Text-to-Speech System, which infers limited discourse-level information, including given/new distinctions, and some information on focus, topic and contrast, along with improved part-of-speech distinctions, to assign intonational features for unrestricted text.

Cite as: Hirschberg, J. (1990) Using discourse context to guide pitch accent decisions in synthetic speech. Proc. First ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 1), 181-184

@inproceedings{hirschberg90_ssw,
  author={Julia Hirschberg},
  title={{Using discourse context to guide pitch accent decisions in synthetic speech}},
  year=1990,
  booktitle={Proc. First ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 1)},
  pages={181--184}
}