Prosody models, and Spontaneous Speech

Prosody models, and Spontaneous Speech
By Hiroya Fujisaki from Computing Prosody: computational models for processing spontaneous speech 1996 edited by Yoshinori Sagisaka, Nick Campell, Norio Higuchi
Views on prosodoy
1. Concrete—taking measurements
2. Abstract—building models
3. The author’s view
Three types of input information
1. Linguistic
2. Para-linguistic
3. Non-linguistic
Process of spontaneous speech production
1. Message planning
2. Utterance planning
3. Motor command generation
4. Speech sound production
Role of generative models
1. Finding a model
2. Use of a model in speech synthesis
3. Use of a model in speech recognition