In this paper we present ongoing work to produce an expressive TTS reader that can be used both in text and dialogue applications. The system has been previously used to read (English) poetry and it has now been extended to apply to short stories. The text is fully analyzed both at phonetic and phonological level, and at syntactic and semantic level. The core of the system is the Prosodic Manager which takes as input discourse structures and relations and uses this information to modify parameters for the TTS accordingly. The text is transformed into a poem-like structures, where each line corresponds to a Breath Group, semantically and syntactically consistent. Stanzas correspond to paragraph boundaries. Analogical parameters are related to ToBI theoretical indices but their number is doubled.

Semantics and Discourse Processing for Expressive TTS

DELMONTE, Rodolfo;TRIPODI, ROCCO
2015-01-01

Abstract

In this paper we present ongoing work to produce an expressive TTS reader that can be used both in text and dialogue applications. The system has been previously used to read (English) poetry and it has now been extended to apply to short stories. The text is fully analyzed both at phonetic and phonological level, and at syntactic and semantic level. The core of the system is the Prosodic Manager which takes as input discourse structures and relations and uses this information to modify parameters for the TTS accordingly. The text is transformed into a poem-like structures, where each line corresponds to a Breath Group, semantically and syntactically consistent. Stanzas correspond to paragraph boundaries. Analogical parameters are related to ToBI theoretical indices but their number is doubled.
2015
Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015)
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