title: FINE-GRAINED PITCH ACCENT AND BOUNDARY TONE LABELING WITH PARAMETRIC F0 FEATURES.
abstract: Motivated by linguistic theories of prosodic categoricity, symbolic representations of prosody have recently attracted the attention of speech technologists. Categorical representations such as ToBI not only bear linguistic relevance, but also have the advantage that they can be easily modeled and integrated within applications. Since manual labeling of these categories is time-consuming and expensive, there has been significant interest in automatic prosody labeling. This paper presents a fine-grained ToBI-style prosody labeling system that makes use of features derived from RFC and TILT parameterization of F0 together with a n-gram prosodic language model for 4-way pitch accent labeling and 2-way boundary tone labeling. For this task, our system achieves pitch accent labeling accuracy of 56.4% and boundary tone labeling accuracy of 67.7% on the Boston University Radio News Corpus.
authors.affiliation: Speech Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089.
authors.forename: Sankaranarayanan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ananthakrishnan
authors.forename: Shrikanth
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Narayanan