TY  - BOOK
AB  - Perceptual prominence is an important indicator of a word's and syllable's lexical, syntactic, 
semantic and pragmatic status in a discourse. Its automatic annotation would be a valuable 
enrichment of large databases used in unit selection speech synthesis and speech recognition. 
While much research has been carried out on the interaction between prominence and 
acoustic factors, little progress has been made in its automatic annotation. Previous 
approaches to German relied on linguistic features in prominence detection, but a purely 
acoustic method would be advantageous. We applied an algorithm to German data that had 
been previously used for English and Italian. Both the algorithm and the data annotation 
encode prominence as a continuous rather than a categorical parameter. First results are 
encouraging, but again show that prominence perception relies on linguistic expectancies as 
well as acoustic patterns. Also, our results further strengthen the view that force accents are a 
more reliable cue to prominence than pitch accents in German.
DA  - 2007
KW  - prominence
KW  - German
KW  - prosody
LA  - eng
PY  - 2007
TI  - On Automatic Prominence Detection for German
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-bipr-44632
Y2  - 2024-11-25T04:10:14
ER  -