Automatic pitch contour stylization using a model of tonal perception

d’Alessandro, Christophe; Mertens, Piet

doi:10.1006/csla.1995.0013

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“…8 We used two measurements for quantifying the properties of the H target: A single absolute F0 maximum, and a measure of a 'high region.' It has repeatedly been shown that small and gradual F0 displacement does not lead speakers to perceive pitch differences ('t Hart, 1976;d'Alessandro and Mertens, 1995). Given the possibility of a region in the contour within which slightly varying pitch values are perceptually equivalent, we should entertain the possibility that it is this larger region which is involved in systematic tune-text association, especially in view of the fact that the singling out of an absolute maximum in cases of microprosodic perturbation may be problematic.…”

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Question Word Intonation in Tashlhiyt Berber: Is ‘high’ good enough?

Bruggeman

Roettger

Grice

2017

Laboratory Phonology

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The present study investigates the intonational marking of question words (qwords) in Tashlhiyt Berber. The first part of the study identifies a number of possible prosodic patterns on qwords as employed in conversational contexts. When they occur in a direct interrogative, qwords are marked with a rise in pitch towards a H(igh) target and a subsequent fall. By contrast, when the qword is embedded, no tonal targets occur on it. The second part consists of a detailed investigation of the alignment and scaling of qwords in utterance-initial position and in narrow focus. While the H target is consistently present somewhere on the qword, neither a local F0 maximum nor a high plateau region is characterized by stable alignment with any specific position in the segmental string. Scaling of the starting point (%L) and endpoint (H) of the rise characteristic of the qword exhibited a dependency on alignment: The rise is somewhat truncated if the peak is aligned early in the word. This study's results shed more light on the intonation system of Tashlhiyt and support earlier findings suggesting that tonal placement in this language is prone to a typologically unusual degree of variability.

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Question Word Intonation in Tashlhiyt Berber: Is ‘high’ good enough?

Bruggeman

Roettger

Grice

2017

Laboratory Phonology

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“…He used processed signals and resynthesized speech in perception experiments (for examples, see section 5). He was also very interested in software that would help with automatic intonation annotation of speech corpora (INTSINT; Campione et al 2000) and with modelling the perception of intonation (Prosogram;d'Alessandro & Mertens 1995;Mertens 2004). Fully understanding their limitations, he still considered them useful and very helpful tools that would play a crucial role in future corpus-based intonation research.…”

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Dimensions of intonation. Wiktor Jassem’s contribution to the studies on the melody of speech

Karpiński

2016

Lingua Posnaniensis

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Intonation is often considered the most problematic component of prosody. It may largely contribute to the meaning of an utterance and provide rich indexical information. The complexity of the intonationrelated phenomena, from the acoustic level up to the cognitive process of semiosis, resulted in a variety of conceptualisations and divergent theoretical approaches. In the present text, an attempt is made to sketch the late Wiktor Jassem’s contribution to intonation studies, starting from his early work on colloquial British English to the studies focused on the Polish language as well as his general perspective on prosody and on the methods of its exploration. Some of his unpublished contribution to research projects on various aspects of prosody is also acknowledged. The present overview is based both on available written materials (publications, references, reports, reviews) and the author’s personal communication with Wiktor Jassem and his collaborators.

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“…Often an intermediate parametric f 0 trajectory stylization is also done. This includes approaches such as piecewise linear stylization [76], polynomial-based stylization [77], and perception inspired approaches [78]. …”

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Behavioral Signal Processing: Deriving Human Behavioral Informatics From Speech and Language

2013

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The expression and experience of human behavior are complex and multimodal and characterized by individual and contextual heterogeneity and variability. Speech and spoken language communication cues offer an important means for measuring and modeling human behavior. Observational research and practice across a variety of domains from commerce to healthcare rely on speech- and language-based informatics for crucial assessment and diagnostic information and for planning and tracking response to an intervention. In this paper, we describe some of the opportunities as well as emerging methodologies and applications of human behavioral signal processing (BSP) technology and algorithms for quantitatively understanding and modeling typical, atypical, and distressed human behavior with a specific focus on speech- and language-based communicative, affective, and social behavior. We describe the three important BSP components of acquiring behavioral data in an ecologically valid manner across laboratory to real-world settings, extracting and analyzing behavioral cues from measured data, and developing models offering predictive and decision-making support. We highlight both the foundational speech and language processing building blocks as well as the novel processing and modeling opportunities. Using examples drawn from specific real-world applications ranging from literacy assessment and autism diagnostics to psychotherapy for addiction and marital well being, we illustrate behavioral informatics applications of these signal processing techniques that contribute to quantifying higher level, often subjectively described, human behavior in a domain-sensitive fashion.

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Automatic pitch contour stylization using a model of tonal perception

Cited by 100 publications

References 24 publications

Question Word Intonation in Tashlhiyt Berber: Is ‘high’ good enough?

Question Word Intonation in Tashlhiyt Berber: Is ‘high’ good enough?

Dimensions of intonation. Wiktor Jassem’s contribution to the studies on the melody of speech

Behavioral Signal Processing: Deriving Human Behavioral Informatics From Speech and Language

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