The Role of Prosody in Affective Speech
The Role of Prosody in Affective Speech

Author: Sylvie Hancil

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9783039116966

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The goal of this volume is to present a collection of papers illustrating state-of-the-art research on prosody and affective speech in French and in English. The volume is divided into two parts. The first part focusses on the sociolinguistic parameters that can influence the manifestation and the interpretation of affective speech in prosody. The second part relies on the way emotion recognition is implemented in synthesis systems and how machine applications can contribute to a better description of emotion(s).

Extraction of Prosody for Automatic Speaker, Language, Emotion and Speech Recognition
Extraction of Prosody for Automatic Speaker, Language, Emotion and Speech Recognition

Author: Leena Mary

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-08-02

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 3319911716

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This updated book expands upon prosody for recognition applications of speech processing. It includes importance of prosody for speech processing applications; builds on why prosody needs to be incorporated in speech processing applications; and presents methods for extraction and representation of prosody for applications such as speaker recognition, language recognition and speech recognition. The updated book also includes information on the significance of prosody for emotion recognition and various prosody-based approaches for automatic emotion recognition from speech.

The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition
The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition

Author: Pilar Prieto

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 902726421X

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Prosodic development is increasingly recognized as a fundamental stepping stone in first language acquisition. Prosodic sensitivity starts developing very early, with newborns becoming attuned to the prosodic properties of the ambient language, and it continues to develop during childhood until early adolescence. In the last decades, a flourishing literature has reported on the varied set of prosodic skills that children acquire and how they interact with other linguistic and cognitive skills. This book compiles a set of seventeen short review chapters from distinguished experts that have contributed significantly to our knowledge about how prosody develops in first language acquisition. The ultimate aim of the book is to offer a complete state of the art on prosodic development that allows the reader to grasp the literature from an interdisciplinary and critical perspective. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, speech therapy, and education.

Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis
Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis

Author: Keikichi Hirose

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-02-25

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 3662452588

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The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody control in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions). A high level of quality has already been achieved in speech synthesis by using selection-based methods with segments of human speech. Although the method enables synthetic speech with various voice qualities and speaking styles, it requires large speech corpora with targeted quality and style. Accordingly, speech conversion techniques are now of growing interest among researchers. HMM/GMM-based methods are widely used, but entail several major problems when viewed from the prosody perspective; prosodic features cover a wider time span than segmental features and their frame-by-frame processing is not always appropriate. The book offers a good overview of state-of-the-art studies on prosody in speech synthesis.

Pragmatics and Prosody in English Language Teaching
Pragmatics and Prosody in English Language Teaching

Author: Jesús Romero-Trillo

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-03-08

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 9400738838

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This volume explores the elusive subject of English prosody—the stress, rhythm and intonation of the language—, and its relevance for English language teaching. Its sharp focus will be especially welcomed by teachers of English to non-native speakers, but also by scholars and researchers interested in Applied Linguistics. The book examines key issues in the development of prosody and delves into the role of intonation in the construction of meaning. The contributions tackle difficult areas of intonation for language learners, providing a theoretical analysis of each stumbling block as well as a practical explanation for teachers and teacher trainers. The numerous issues dealt with in the book include stress and rhythm; tone units and information structure; intonation and pragmatic meaning; tonicity and markedness, etc... The authors have deployed speech analysis software to illustrate their examples as well as to encourage readers to carry out their own computerized prosodic analyses.

The Oxford Handbook of Aphasia and Language Disorders
The Oxford Handbook of Aphasia and Language Disorders

Author: Anastasia M. Raymer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0199772398

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The Oxford Handbook of Aphasia and Language Disorders' integrates neural and cognitive perspectives, providing a comprehensive overview of the complex language and communication impairments that arise in individuals with acquired brain damage.

Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure
Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure

Author: Anthony Fox

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2002-04-19

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0191589764

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Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure presents an overall view of the nature of prosodic features of language - accent, stress, rhythm, tone, pitch, and intonation - and shows how these connect to sound systems and meaning. It is a work of great scholarship and learning, expressed in way that will be accessible to all linguists from advanced undergraduates to postdoctoral researchers. The last substantial overview was published over 20 years ago. Since then the subject has been transformed by linked advances in phonological and phonetic theory and accoustic technology. This book will interest phonologists, phoneticians, and researchers in related applied fields such as speech pathology and speech synthesis.

Mathematical Foundations of Speech and Language Processing
Mathematical Foundations of Speech and Language Processing

Author: Mark Johnson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1441990178

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Speech and language technologies continue to grow in importance as they are used to create natural and efficient interfaces between people and machines, and to automatically transcribe, extract, analyze, and route information from high-volume streams of spoken and written information. The workshops on Mathematical Foundations of Speech Processing and Natural Language Modeling were held in the Fall of 2000 at the University of Minnesota's NSF-sponsored Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, as part of a "Mathematics in Multimedia" year-long program. Each workshop brought together researchers in the respective technologies on the one hand, and mathematicians and statisticians on the other hand, for an intensive week of cross-fertilization. There is a long history of benefit from introducing mathematical techniques and ideas to speech and language technologies. Examples include the source-channel paradigm, hidden Markov models, decision trees, exponential models and formal languages theory. It is likely that new mathematical techniques, or novel applications of existing techniques, will once again prove pivotal for moving the field forward. This volume consists of original contributions presented by participants during the two workshops. Topics include language modeling, prosody, acoustic-phonetic modeling, and statistical methodology.

Prosody in Interaction
Prosody in Interaction

Author: Dagmar Barth-Weingarten

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 9027226334

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Prosody is constitutive for spoken interaction. In more than 25 years, its study has grown into a full-fledged and very productive field with a sound catalogue of research methods and principles. This volume presents the state of the art, illustrates current research trends and uncovers potential directions for future research. It will therefore be of major interest to everyone studying spoken interaction. The collection brings together an impressive range of internationally renowned scholars from different, yet closely related and compatible research traditions which have made a significant contribution to the field. They cover issues such as the units of language, the contextualization of actions and activities, conversational modalities and genres, the display of affect and emotion, the multimodality of interaction, language acquisition and aphasia. All contributions are based on empirical, audio- and/or video-recorded data of natural talk-in-interaction, including languages such as English, German and Japanese. The methodologies employed come from Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics.

The Biological Foundations of Music
The Biological Foundations of Music

Author: Robert J. Zatorre

Publisher: New York : New York Academy of Sciences

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9781573313063

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There has been an increase in research activities on music perception and performance and their correlates in the human brain. The increase in scientific work has been motivated by the idea that music offers a unique opportunity to better understand brain organisation. This volume brings together leading scientists that use a wide range of different methodologies from the cognitive sciences and neurosciences.