The prosody and the music of the human speech

Abstract

We propose the use of a self-oscillating dynamical system --the pre-Galileian clock equation-- for modeling the laryngeal tone. The parameters are shown to be the minimal control needed for generating the prosody of the human speech. Based on this model, we outline a peak delay detection algorithm for extracting the prosody of the real speech.

arXiv comment8 pages 7 figures, submitted to International Journal of Modern Physics B