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Presentation 2013-12-20 10:10
Automatic Estimation of Accent Phrase Boundaries Using Language and Acoustic Models
Hiroshi Suzuki, Tomoki Koriyama (Tokyo Tech), Takashi Nose (Tohoku Univ.), Takahiro Shinozaki, Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Tech) SP2013-89
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) This paper proposes a technique for automatically estimating accent phrase boundaries for text-to-speech synthesis systems. To construct speech synthesis systems, we need to prepare a database that has annotations of prosodic information including accents. However, manual annotation for this purpose generally requires costly process. In contrast, the proposed method utilizes conditional random field (CRF) for the language models of accent phrase boundary and accent type, and uses hidden markov model (HMM) for the acoustic feature model. In this paper, we confirmed that the proposed method improved the estimation accuracy for reading-style speech data compared with conventional method.
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(in English) accent phrase boundary / prodosy / HMM / CRF / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 113, no. 366, SP2013-89, pp. 97-102, Dec. 2013.
Paper # SP2013-89 
Date of Issue 2013-12-12 (SP) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee SP IPSJ-SLP  
Conference Date 2013-12-19 - 2013-12-20 
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Topics (in English) 15th Symposium on Spoken Language 
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Conference Code 2013-12-SP-SLP 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Automatic Estimation of Accent Phrase Boundaries Using Language and Acoustic Models 
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Keyword(2) prodosy  
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Keyword(4) CRF  
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1st Author's Name Hiroshi Suzuki  
1st Author's Affiliation Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)
2nd Author's Name Tomoki Koriyama  
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)
3rd Author's Name Takashi Nose  
3rd Author's Affiliation Tohoku University (Tohoku Univ.)
4th Author's Name Takahiro Shinozaki  
4th Author's Affiliation Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)
5th Author's Name Takao Kobayashi  
5th Author's Affiliation Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)
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Date Time 2013-12-20 10:10:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
Registration for SP 
Paper # SP2013-89 
Volume (vol) vol.113 
Number (no) no.366 
Page pp.97-102 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2013-12-12 (SP) 

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