This paper describes work directed towarde the development of a syllable prominence-based prosody generation funcionality for a German unit selection speech synthesis system. A general con cept for syllable prominence-based prosody generation in unit selection synthesis is proposed. As a first step towards its implementation, an automated syllable prominence annotation procedure based on acoustic analyses has been performed on the BODD speech corpus. The prominence labeling has been evaluated against an existing annotation of lexical stress levels and manual prominence labeling on a subset of the corpus. We discuss methods and fresults and give an outlook on further implementation steps.
Cite as: Windmann, A., Wagner, P., Tamburini, F., Arnold, D., Oertel, C. (2010) Automatic prominence annotation of a German speech synthesis corpus: towards prominence-based prosody generation for unit selection synthesis. Proc. 7th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 7), 377-382
@inproceedings{windmann10_ssw,
author={Andreas Windmann and Petra Wagner and Fabio Tamburini and Denis Arnold and Catharine Oertel},
title={{Automatic prominence annotation of a German speech synthesis corpus: towards prominence-based prosody generation for unit selection synthesis}},
year=2010,
booktitle={Proc. 7th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 7)},
pages={377--382}
}