Abstract:Since the letter-by-letter spelling of English words or acronyms appears in Mandarin Chinese speech quite often, a prosodic modeling approach for Mandarin speech mixed with English spelling is proposed to help understand the influence of embedded foreign language and make the foreign language congruous with the primary language's prosody. Two important prosodic features, duration and pitch-mean (as a role of intonation), are discussed based on an English-Mandarin bilingual speech database, in which all the Eng… Show more
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