creators_name: Zellner, Brigitte
editors_name: Keller, Eric
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 2000-07-21
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:21
metadata_visibility: show
title: Pauses and the temporal structure of speech
ispublished: pub
subjects: ling-comput
full_text_status: public
keywords: pauses, speech silences, temporal structure of speech, temporal organisation of speech, rhythm, speech rhythm, prediction of the temporal structure of speech, modelling speech rhythm, algorithm for speech timing, prosody, speech synthesis
abstract: Natural-sounding speech synthesis requires close control over the temporal structure of the speech flow. This includes a full predictive scheme for the durational structure and in particuliar the prolongation of final syllables of lexemes as well as for the pausal structure in the utterance. In this chapter, a description of the temporal structure and the summary of the numerous factors that modify it are presented. In the second part, predictive schemes for the temporal structure of speech ("performance structures") are introduced, and their potential for characterising the overall prosodic structure of speech is demonstrated.
date: 1994
date_type: published
publication: Zellner, B. (1994).  Pauses and the temporal structure of speech, in E. Keller (Ed.) Fundamentals of speech synthesis and speech recognition. (pp. 41-62).  Chichester: John Wiley.
publisher: John Wiley
pagerange: 41-62
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Zellner, Brigitte  (1994) Pauses and the temporal structure of speech.  [Book Chapter]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/884/3/Zellner.SpeechPauses.pdf