| Presentation | 2004/8/12 Pause prediction from input Chinese text by analyzing part-of-speech sequences Jinfu Ni, Hisashi KAWAI, |
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| Abstract(in English) | This paper presents a practical method for predicting pause positions in text-to-speech synthesis. An input sentence is analyzed into phrase chunks based on both punctuation and a pattern of part-of-speech (POS) tags of underlying words that matches a pre-selected POS pattern. A set of pre-selected POS patterns represents possible phrasal structures that are extracted from restricted syntactic clauses in an unsupervised way. Maximum likelihood estimation and rules-based techniques are jointly used to decode POS patterns from the sentence for phrasing. Simulation results indicate that 83.7% of predicting pause positions are consistent with those measured in real speech, with 64.2 % accuracy in the case of a pause without accompanying punctuation. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Pause prediction / Morphological analysis / Part of speech / Text-to-speech |
| Paper # | SP2004-47 |
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| Committee | SP |
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| Conference Date | 2004/8/12(1days) |
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| Registration To | Speech (SP) |
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| Language | ENG |
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| Title (in English) | Pause prediction from input Chinese text by analyzing part-of-speech sequences |
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| Keyword(1) | Pause prediction |
| Keyword(2) | Morphological analysis |
| Keyword(3) | Part of speech |
| Keyword(4) | Text-to-speech |
| 1st Author's Name | Jinfu Ni |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories.() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Hisashi KAWAI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories. |
| Date | 2004/8/12 |
| Paper # | SP2004-47 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.104 |
| Number (no) | 252 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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