6.911 | January IAP 2006 | Undergraduate

Transcribing Prosodic Structure of Spoken Utterances with ToBI

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Arbisi-Kelm, Timothy, and Sun-Ah Jun. “A Comparison of Disfluency Patterns in Normal and Stuttered Speech.” In Proceedings of Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech Workshop. Aix-en Provence, France, 2005.

Arvaniti, Amalia, and Mary Baltazani. “Greek ToBI: A System For The Annotation Of Greek Speech Corpora.” In Proceedings of Second International Conference on Language 2 (2000): 555-562.

Beckman, Mary, and Janet Pierrehumbert. “Intonational structure in English and Japanese.” Phonology Yearbook 3 (1986): 255-310.

Black, A. W., and A. J. Hunt. “Generating F0 contours from ToBI labels using linear regression.” In Proceedings of ICSLP'96 (1996): 1385-1388.

Dilley, L., S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, and M. Ostendorf. “Glottalization of word-initial vowels as a function of prosodic structure.” Journal of Phonetics 24 (1996): 423-444.

Gordon, Matthew. “Pitch accent timing in Chickasaw.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 117 (2005): 2488.

Hirschberg, J., and M. Beckman. “The ToBI Annotation Conventions.” Ohio State University, 1994.

Loehr, D. P. “Gesture and Intonation.” Dissertation, Georgetown University, 2004.

Maekawa, K., H. Kikuchi, Y. Igarashi, and J. Venditti. “X-JToBI: An extended J-ToBI for Spontaneous Speech.” In 7th Proc Int Conf Spoken Language Processing, Denver, CO, 2002, pp. 1545-1548.

Mixdorff, H. “Speech Technology, ToBI, and Making Sense of Prosody.” In Proc of the 1st Int Conf on Speech Prosody, 2002.

Pierrehumbert, J., and D. Talkin: “Lenition of/h/and glottal stop.” Papers in Laboratory Phonology II: Gesture, Segment, Prosody, 1992.

Buy at MIT Press Pierrehumbert, J., and J. Hirschberg: “The meaning of intonational contours in the interpretation of discourse.” In Intentions in Communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. ISBN: 0262031507.

Renwick, M., Y. Yasinnik, and S. Shattuck-Hufnagel. “The Timing of Speech-Accompanying Gestures with Respect to Prosody.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115, no. 5 (2001): 2397-2397.

Syrdal, A. K., and J. McGory. “Inter-transcriber Reliability of ToBI Prosodic Labelling.” In Proc Int Conf On Spoken Language Processing. Vol. 3. Beijing, China, 2000, pp. 235-238.

Syrdal, A. K., J. Hirschberg, J. McGory, and M. Beckman. “Automatic ToBI prediction and alignment to speed manual labeling of prosody.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 106 (2001): 2181.

Yoon, T., S. Chavarria, J. Cole, and M. Hasegawa-Johnson. “Intertranscriber reliability of prosodic labeling on telephone conversation using ToBI.” In ICSA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. Jeju, Korea: Interspeech, October 2004.

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