We describe the design and creation of prosodic speech databases for 6 languages. The purpose of the databases is to allow derivation of prosody models in order to improve TTS synthesis. The main prosodic variables to model were word prominence, prosodic boundary strength and phone duration. We describe the database structure and contents and the methodology for creating prosodic databases, and we present statistics for the main prosodic variables.
Cite as: Grover, C., Fackrell, J., Vereecken, H., Martens, J.-P., Coile, B.V. (1998) Designing prosodic databases for automatic modelling in 6 languages. Proc. 3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 3), 93-98
@inproceedings{grover98_ssw,
author={C. Grover and J. Fackrell and H. Vereecken and Jean-Pierre Martens and Bert Van Coile},
title={{Designing prosodic databases for automatic modelling in 6 languages}},
year=1998,
booktitle={Proc. 3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 3)},
pages={93--98}
}