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The common prosody platform (CPP) — where theories of prosody can be directly compared

Prom-On, S; Xu, Y; Gu, W; Arvaniti, A; Nam, H; Whalen, DH; (2016) The common prosody platform (CPP) — where theories of prosody can be directly compared. In: Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016. (pp. pp. 1-5). International Speech Communication Association (ISCA): Boston, MA, USA. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper introduces the Common Prosody Platform (CPP), a computational platform that implements major theories and models of prosody. CPP aims at a) adapting theory-specific assumptions into computational algorithms that can generate surface prosodic forms, and b) making all the models trainable through global optimization based on automatic analysis-bysynthesis learning. CPP allows examination of prosody in much finer detail than has been previously done and provides a means for speech scientists to directly compare theories and their models. So far, four theories have been included in the platform, the Command-Response model, the Autosegmental-Metrical theory, the Task Dynamic model, and the Parallel Encoding and Target Approximation model. Preliminary tests show that all the implemented models can achieve good local contour fitting with low errors and high correlations.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: The common prosody platform (CPP) — where theories of prosody can be directly compared
Event: Speech Prosody 2016
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-1
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-1
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1498860
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