Sentence-Final Prosody Analysis of Japanese Communicative Speech Based on the Command-Response Model

Kazuma Takada; Hideharu Nakajima; Yoshinori Sagisaka

doi:10.1109/ICCA49400.2020.9022850

Sentence-Final Prosody Analysis of Japanese Communicative Speech Based on the Command-Response Model

Kazuma Takada, Hideharu Nakajima, Yoshinori Sagisaka

School of Fundamental Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Aiming at communicative speech synthesis, we analyzed sentence-final prosody characteristics through subjective impression on constituting lexicons. Since Japanese sentence-final particles and postpositionals are expected to be employed to generate communicative prosody showing speaker's intention and attitudes, we designed 52 single-phrase utterances showing different strength of the speaker's impressions about judgment. These impressions were quantified in Semantic Differential (SD) scales. F0 contour characteristics were analyzed by using the command-response model. To cope with sentence final F0 characteristics, an additional accent command was introduced for F0 rise and drop of sentence-final particles. The analysis showed systematic communicative prosody control by the accent command reflecting effect of judgment impressions which can be obtained from constituting lexicons. These results indicate possibility of sentence-final prosody control using impression obtained from lexicons constituting output sentences.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Applications, ICCA 2020
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728159256
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCA49400.2020.9022850
Publication status	Published - 2020 Feb
Event	2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Applications, ICCA 2020 - Yangon, Myanmar Duration: 2020 Feb 27 → 2020 Feb 28

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Name	2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Applications, ICCA 2020

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Conference	2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Applications, ICCA 2020
Country/Territory	Myanmar
City	Yangon
Period	20/2/27 → 20/2/28

Keywords

Command-Response Model
Semantic Differential (SD)
communicative speech
linguistic modality
speech synthesis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Science Applications

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Takada, K., Nakajima, H., & Sagisaka, Y. (2020). Sentence-Final Prosody Analysis of Japanese Communicative Speech Based on the Command-Response Model. In 2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Applications, ICCA 2020 [9022850] (2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Applications, ICCA 2020). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCA49400.2020.9022850

Sentence-Final Prosody Analysis of Japanese Communicative Speech Based on the Command-Response Model. / Takada, Kazuma; Nakajima, Hideharu; Sagisaka, Yoshinori.

2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Applications, ICCA 2020. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020. 9022850 (2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Applications, ICCA 2020).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Takada, K, Nakajima, H & Sagisaka, Y 2020, Sentence-Final Prosody Analysis of Japanese Communicative Speech Based on the Command-Response Model. in 2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Applications, ICCA 2020., 9022850, 2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Applications, ICCA 2020, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Applications, ICCA 2020, Yangon, Myanmar, 20/2/27. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCA49400.2020.9022850

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