Concatenative synthesis - University of Birmingham
Concatenative synthesis - University of Birmingham
Concatenative synthesis - University of Birmingham
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THE UNIVERSITY<br />
OF BIRMINGHAM<br />
Prosody<br />
SCHOOL OF<br />
ELECTRONIC &<br />
ELECTRICAL<br />
ENGINEERING<br />
Digital Systems<br />
&<br />
Vision Processing<br />
Inaugural Lecture<br />
22-Nov-00<br />
SLIDE 7<br />
! Prosody is the term used to describe:<br />
– Durational structure <strong>of</strong> a speech signal<br />
(the relative lengths <strong>of</strong> its different parts,<br />
and the presence and lengths <strong>of</strong> any<br />
pauses)<br />
– Amplitude structure (the relative<br />
amplitudes <strong>of</strong> its different parts)<br />
– Intonational structure. In other words,<br />
the fundamental frequency<br />
! Prosody includes stress and rythmn
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