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| Presentation | 2016-01-14 11:20 Experimental verification of improvement of naturalness by prosody training of Japanese with OJAD Nobuaki Minematsu (UTokyo), Hiroko Hirano, Noriko Nakamura (TUFS), Koji Oikawa (JASLON)  SP2015-87 |
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| Abstract | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | To support Japanese prosody instruction, the Online Japanese Accent Dictionary (OJAD) has been developed by using NLP and SLP technologies and it is maintained by our laboratory. One of the functions of the OJAD is a prosodic reading tutor. For any input text, the tutor illustrates the hierarchical control of prosody in an easy-to-understand way, which is required to read the input text in Tokyo Japanese. Further, the tutor generates voices for the input text using a speech synthesizer based on the visualized prosody. In this article, by using Chinese learners of Japanese, it is experimentally verified that the tutor is effective to improve the naturalness of their spoken Japanese. Further, we examine experimentally which manner of prosody presentation to learners, visual or auditory, is more effective. Results show that higher effectiveness is observed in the former manner and, questionnaires posed to learners also indicate their preferences of visual prosody to auditory prosody. | |
| Keyword | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | Japanese prosody instruction / OJAD / prosodic reading tutor / speech synthesis / visual prosody / naturalness / / | |
| Reference Info. | IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 115, no. 392, SP2015-87, pp. 13-18, Jan. 2016. | |
| Paper # | SP2015-87 | |
| Date of Issue | 2016-01-07 (SP) | |
| ISSN | Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 | |
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| Committee | SP |
| Conference Date | 2016-01-14 - 2016-01-14 |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Sunpian Kawasaki |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Synthesis, Generation, Prosody, etc. |
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| Registration To | SP |
| Conference Code | 2016-01-SP |
| Language | Japanese |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | Experimental verification of improvement of naturalness by prosody training of Japanese with OJAD |
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| Keyword(1) | Japanese prosody instruction |
| Keyword(2) | OJAD |
| Keyword(3) | prosodic reading tutor |
| Keyword(4) | speech synthesis |
| Keyword(5) | visual prosody |
| Keyword(6) | naturalness |
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| 1st Author's Name | Nobuaki Minematsu |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | The University of Toyo (UTokyo) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Hiroko Hirano |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Noriko Nakamura |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) |
| 4th Author's Name | Koji Oikawa |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | JASLON (JASLON) |
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| Speaker | Author-1 |
| Date Time | 2016-01-14 11:20:00 |
| Presentation Time | 25 minutes |
| Registration for | SP |
| Paper # | SP2015-87 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.115 |
| Number (no) | no.392 |
| Page | pp.13-18 |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2016-01-07 (SP) |
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