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An articulatory-functional approach to modeling Persian focus prosody
This paper is an attempt to test PENTA, an
articulatory-functional model, on Persian focus
prosody. The test was done on a corpus consisting of
utterances with different focus conditions using
PENTAtrainer2, a trainable prosody synthesizer that
optimizes categorical pitch targets each corresponding
to multiple communicative functions. The
evaluation was done by comparing the F0 contours
generated by the extracted pitch targets to those of
natural utterances through numerical and perceptual
evaluations. The numerical results showed that the
synthesized F0 was close to the natural contour in
terms of RMSE (= 1.94) and Pearson’s r (= 0.84).
Perceptual evaluation showed that the rate of focus
identification and naturalness judgement by native
Persian listeners were highly similar between
synthetic and natural F0 contours
The Perception of Prosodic Focus in Persian
Item does not contain fulltextSpeech Prosody 7, 20 mei 201