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http://dx.doi.org/10.7776/ASK.2006.25.6.277

Automatic Recognition of Pitch Accent Using Distributed Time-Delay Recursive Neural Network  

Kim Sung-Suk (용인대학교 컴퓨터정보학과)
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea / v.25, no.6, 2006 , pp. 277-281 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a method for the automatic recognition of pitch accents over syllables. The method that we propose is based on the time-delay recursive neural network (TDRNN). which is a neural network classifier with two different representation of dynamic context: the delayed input nodes allow the representation of an explicit trajectory F0(t) along time. while the recursive nodes provide long-term context information that reflects the characteristics of pitch accentuation in spoken English. We apply the TDRNN to pitch accent recognition in two forms: in the normal TDRNN. all of the prosodic features (pitch. energy, duration) are used as an entire set in a single TDRNN. while in the distributed TDRNN. the network consists of several TDRNNs each taking a single prosodic feature as the input. The final output of the distributed TDRNN is weighted sum of the output of individual TDRNN. We used the Boston Radio News Corpus (BRNC) for the experiments on the speaker-independent pitch accent recognition. π 1e experimental results show that the distributed TDRNN exhibits an average recognition accuracy of 83.64% over both pitch events and non-events.
Keywords
Pitch accent; Prosody; TDRNN; Distributed TDRNN;
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