Sagisaka Y., Campbell N., Higuchi N. Computing Prosody. Computational Models for Processing Spontaneous Speech

Springer, 1997. — 399 p.This book presents a collection of papers from the Spring 1995 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Processing the Prosody of Spontaneous Speech, hosted by the ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan. The workshop brought together leading researchers in the fields of speech and signal processing, electrical engineering, psychology, and linguistics, to discuss aspects of spontaneous speech prosody and to suggest approaches to its computational analysis and modelling.
The book is divided into four sections. Part I gives an overview and theoretical background to the nature of spontaneous speech, differentiating it from the lab-speech that has been the focus of so many earlier analyses. Part II focuses on the prosodic features of discourse and the structure of the spoken message, Part III on the generation and modelling of prosody for computer speech synthesis. Part IV discusses how prosodic information can be used in the context of automatic speech recognition. Each section of the book starts with an invited overview paper to situate the chapters in the context of current research.
We feel that this collection of papers offers interesting insights into the scope and nature of the problems concerned with the computational analysis and modelling of real spontaneous speech, and expect that these works will not only form the basis of further developments in each field but also merge to form an integrated computational model of prosody for a better understanding of human processing of the complex interactions of the speech chain.I The Prosody of Spontaneous Speech
A Typology of Spontaneous Speech
Prosody, Models, and Spontaneous Speech
On the Analysis of Prosody in Interaction
II Prosody and the Structure of the Message
Integrating Prosodic and Discourse Modelling
Prosodic Features of Utterances in Task-Oriented Dialogues
Variation of Accent Prominence within the Phrase: Models and Spontaneous Speech Data
Predicting the Intonation of Discourse Segments from Examples in Dialogue Speech
Effects of Focus on Duration and Vowel Formant Frequency in Japanese
III Prosody in Speech Synthesis
Synthesizing Spontaneous Speech
Modelling Prosody in Spontaneous Speech
Comparison of F₀ Control Rules Derived from Multiple Speech Databases
Segmental Duration and Speech Timing
Measuring temporal compensation effect in speech perception
Prediction of Major Phrase Boundary Location and Pause Insertion Using a Stochastic Context-free Grammar
IV Prosody in Speech Recognition
A Multi-level Model for Recognition of Intonation Labels
Training Prosody-Syntax Recognition Models without Prosodic Labels
Disambiguating Recognition Results by Prosodic Features
Accent Phrase Segmentation by F₀ Clustering Using Superpositional Modelling
Prosodic Modules for Speech Recognition and Understanding in VERBMOBIL