Removing micromelody from fundamental frequency contours

Reichel, Uwe D. and Winkelmann, Raphael (2010): Removing micromelody from fundamental frequency contours. Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, USA, 10. - 14. Mai 2010.

Abstract

In this paper we describe a new method to diminish microprosodic components of fundamental frequency contours by applying weight functions linked to microprosodically classified phone combinations. For vowel segments in obstruent environments our algorithm outperforms standard smoothing algorithms like Moving-Average filtering, Savitzky-Golay filtering or MOMEL in diminishing F0 variations related to microprosodic factors while retaining significant differences related to macroprosody.

• Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
• Keywords: microprosody, smoothing, intonation
• Faculties: Languages and Literatures > Department 2 > Speech Science
• Subjects: 400 Language > 400 Language
• Language: English