Difficulties with Wh-Questions in Czech TTS System

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23520%2F16%3A43929879" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23520/16:43929879 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-45510-5_41" target="_blank" >http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-45510-5_41</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45510-5_41" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-45510-5_41</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Difficulties with Wh-Questions in Czech TTS System
Original language description
The sentence intonation is very important for differentiation of sentence types (declarative sentences, questions, etc.), especially in languages without fixed word order. Thus, it is very important to deal with that also in text-to-speech systems. This paper concerns the problem of wh-question, where its intonation differs from the intonation of another basic question type – yes/no question. We discuss the possibility to use wh-questions (recorded during the speech corpus preparation) in speech synthesis. The inclusion and appropriate usage of these recordings is tested in a real text-to-speech system and evaluated by listening tests. Furthermore, we focus on the problem of the perception of wh-question by listeners, with the aim to reveal whether listeners really prefer phonologically correct (falling) intonation in this type of questions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/LO1506" target="_blank" >LO1506: Sustainability support of the centre NTIS - New Technologies for the Information Society</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Text, Speech, and Dialogue 19th International Conference, TSD 2016, Brno , Czech Republic, September 12-16, 2016, Proceedings
ISBN
978-3-319-45509-9
ISSN
0302-9743
e-ISSN
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Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
359-366
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
Event location
Brno, Česká republika
Event date
Sep 12, 2016
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
000389707400041

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