A Model of Timing for Nonsegmental Phonological Structure

  • John Local
  • Richard Ogden
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Abstract

Usually the problem of timing in speech synthesis is construed as the search for appropriate algorithms for altering durations of speech units under various conditions (e.g., stressed versus unstressed syllables, final versus non-final position, nature of surrounding segments). This chapter proposes a model of phonological representation and phonetic interpretation based on Firthian prosodic analysis [Fir57], which is instantiated in the YorkTalk speech generation system. In this model timing is treated as part of phonetic interpretation and not as an integral part of phonological representation. This leads us to explore the possibility that speech rhythm is the product of relationships between abstract constituents of linguistic structure of which there is no single optimal distinguished unit.

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Phonological Representation Speech Synthesis Acoustical Society ofAmerica Natural Speech Synthetic Speech 
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