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Investigating the Utility of Surprisal from Large Language Models for Speech Synthesis Prosody
Sofoklis Kakouros, Juraj Šimko, Martti Vainio +1
This paper investigates the use of word surprisal, a measure of the predictability of a word in a given context, as a feature to aid speech synthesis prosody. We explore how word s…
The Power of Prosody and Prosody of Power: An Acoustic Analysis of Finnish Parliamentary Speech
Martti Vainio, Antti Suni, Juraj Šimko +1
Parliamentary recordings provide a rich source of data for studying how politicians use speech to convey their messages and influence their audience. This provides a unique context…
Prosodic Prominence and Boundaries in Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Synthesis
Antti Suni, Sofoklis Kakouros, Martti Vainio +1
Recent advances in deep learning methods have elevated synthetic speech quality to human level, and the field is now moving towards addressing prosodic variation in synthetic speec…
Dialect Identification of Spoken North Sámi Language Varieties Using Prosodic Features
Sofoklis Kakouros, Katri Hiovain, Martti Vainio +1
This work explores the application of various supervised classification approaches using prosodic information for the identification of spoken North Sámi language varieties. Dialec…
Predicting Prosodic Prominence from Text with Pre-trained Contextualized Word Representations
Aarne Talman, Antti Suni, Hande Celikkanat +3
In this paper we introduce a new natural language processing dataset and benchmark for predicting prosodic prominence from written text. To our knowledge this will be the largest p…
Hierarchical Representation of Prosody for Statistical Speech Synthesis
Antti Suni, Daniel Aalto, Martti Vainio
Prominences and boundaries are the essential constituents of prosodic structure in speech. They provide for means to chunk the speech stream into linguistically relevant units by p…