Project Details
Popular science description
The primary goal of the research project is to produce more precise and thorough knowledge about phrase and utterance prosody in some major regional varieties of Swedish. An accompanying goal is thus to develop our model both theoretically and experimentally. A fundamental idea in the project work is to take advantage of speech synthesis in different forms in order to be able to reach our goals.
The primary goal of the research project is to produce more precise and thorough knowledge about phrase and utterance prosody in some major regional varieties of Swedish. In this research effort the Swedish prosody model plays a prominent role. An accompanying goal is thus to develop our model both theoretically and experimentally. A fundamental idea is to take advantage of speech synthesis in different forms in order to be able to reach our goals.
Our project is based primarily on already recorded speech material. The main project work will consist of the analysis and description of this material regarding prosody as well as the simulation of prosodic patterns by means of speech synthesis. In our analysis and synthesis work the idea is to focus on some major intonational types. These types are supposed to be geographically distributed: South, Göta, Svea, Gotland, Dala, North, and Finland Swedish.
The significance of our project work will be both within basic research and within speech technology applications. Thus our project is expected to contribute to deepening our understanding of prosodic structuring of spoken language generally, and more specifically of dialectal variation of Swedish. It is likely to contribute to generating new knowledge about prosody to be used in speech synthesis systems. The project has the potential of becoming a pioneer enterprise generally within the field of synthetic speech with its aim to be able to simulate different accents of a langu
The primary goal of the research project is to produce more precise and thorough knowledge about phrase and utterance prosody in some major regional varieties of Swedish. In this research effort the Swedish prosody model plays a prominent role. An accompanying goal is thus to develop our model both theoretically and experimentally. A fundamental idea is to take advantage of speech synthesis in different forms in order to be able to reach our goals.
Our project is based primarily on already recorded speech material. The main project work will consist of the analysis and description of this material regarding prosody as well as the simulation of prosodic patterns by means of speech synthesis. In our analysis and synthesis work the idea is to focus on some major intonational types. These types are supposed to be geographically distributed: South, Göta, Svea, Gotland, Dala, North, and Finland Swedish.
The significance of our project work will be both within basic research and within speech technology applications. Thus our project is expected to contribute to deepening our understanding of prosodic structuring of spoken language generally, and more specifically of dialectal variation of Swedish. It is likely to contribute to generating new knowledge about prosody to be used in speech synthesis systems. The project has the potential of becoming a pioneer enterprise generally within the field of synthetic speech with its aim to be able to simulate different accents of a langu
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 2007/01/01 → 2010/12/31 |