The detection of prosodic characteristics is an important aspect of both speech synthesis and speech recognition. Correct placement of pitch accents aids in more natural sounding ...
The performance of autocorrelation-based metre induction was tested with two large collections of folk melodies, consisting of approximately 13,000 melodies in MIDI file format, f...
This paper presents trainable methods for generating letter to sound rules from a given lexicon for use in pronouncing out-ofvocabulary words and as a method for lexicon compressi...
Many real-world classification tasks involve the prediction of multiple, inter-dependent class labels. A prototypical case of this sort deals with prediction of a sequence of labe...
We train a decision tree inducer (CART) and a memory-based classifier (MBL) on predicting prosodic pitch accents and breaks in Dutch text, on the basis of shallow, easy-to-comput...
Erwin Marsi, Martin Reynaert, Antal van den Bosch,...