Punctuation-generation-inspired linguistic features for Mandarin prosody generation

Abstract This paper proposes two novel linguistic features extracted from text input for prosody generation in a Mandarin text-to-speech system. The first feature is the punctuation confidence (PC), which measures the likelihood that a major punctuation mark (MPM) can be inserted at a word boundary....

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Main Authors: Chen-Yu Chiang, Yu-Ping Hung, Han-Yun Yeh, I-Bin Liao, Chen-Ming Pan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-02-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13636-019-0147-y