Villing, Rudi and Ward, Tomas E. and Timoney, Joseph (2003) P-Centre Extraction from Speech: the need for a more reliable measure. In: Irish Signals and Systems Conference 2003, July 2003, University College Cork.

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Abstract

P-Centres represent the perceptual moments of occurrence of acoustic signals and are an important parameter for duration modelling in speech synthesis applications. While a number of algorithms have been proposed previously to achieve P-Centre extraction it is shown in this paper that none yield reliable measures or are robust in implementation. A software only solution is presented which enables the rhythm setting experiment to be carried out in a reliable and flexible manner

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords:	P-Centre; Speech rhythm; Psychoacoustics;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering
Item ID:	1269
Depositing User:	Dr Tomas Ward
Date Deposited:	26 Feb 2009 16:46
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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