The prosogram: semi-automatic transcription of prosody based on a tonal perception model

Abstract

This paper describes a system for semi-automatic transcription of prosody based on a stylization of the fundamental frequency data (contour) for vocalic (or syllabic) nuclei. The stylization is a simulation of tonal perception of human listeners. The system requires a time-aligned phonetic annotation. The transcription has been applied to several speech corpora.