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The IMS Toucan System for the Blizzard Challenge 2023
Florian Lux, Julia Koch, Sarina Meyer +5
For our contribution to the Blizzard Challenge 2023, we improved on the system we submitted to the Blizzard Challenge 2021. Our approach entails a rule-based text-to-phoneme proces…
Modeling Speaker-Listener Interaction for Backchannel Prediction
Daniel Ortega, Sarina Meyer, Antje Schweitzer +1
We present our latest findings on backchannel modeling novelly motivated by the canonical use of the minimal responses Yeah and Uh-huh in English and their correspondent tokens in…
"splink" is happy and "phrouth" is scary: Emotion Intensity Analysis for Nonsense Words
Valentino Sabbatino, Enrica Troiano, Antje Schweitzer +1
People associate affective meanings to words - "death" is scary and sad while "party" is connotated with surprise and joy. This raises the question if the association is purely a p…
Effects of Word Embeddings on Neural Network-based Pitch Accent Detection
Sabrina Stehwien, Ngoc Thang Vu, Antje Schweitzer
Pitch accent detection often makes use of both acoustic and lexical features based on the fact that pitch accents tend to correlate with certain words. In this paper, we extend a p…