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Analysis of Durations of Sound Units

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Predicting Prosody from Text for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

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Abstract

This chapter presents the detailed analysis of durations of sound units. Durations of the syllables are analyzed with respect to positional and contextual factors. For detailed duration analysis, syllables are categorized into groups based on size of the word and position of the word in the utterance, and the analysis is performed separately on each category. From the duration analysis presented in this chapter, it is observed that durations of sound units depend on several factors at various levels, and it is very difficult to derive the precise rules for accurate estimation of durations. Therefore, there is a need to explore nonlinear models to capture the duration patterns of sound units from features mentioned in this chapter.

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