Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation, which are used by speakers of all
languages in order to give shape to utterances. More specifically, tone encodes segments …

Emotional voices attract considerable attention. A search on any browser using “emotional
prosody” as a key phrase leads to more than a million entries. Such interest is evident in the …

Text to speech (TTS), or speech synthesis, which aims to synthesize intelligible and natural
speech given text, is a hot research topic in speech, language, and machine learning …

In this work, we propose “global style tokens”(GSTs), a bank of embeddings that are jointly
trained within Tacotron, a state-of-the-art end-to-end speech synthesis system. The …

We present an extension to the Tacotron speech synthesis architecture that learns a latent
embedding space of prosody, derived from a reference acoustic representation containing …

An Introduction to Audio Description is the first comprehensive, user-friendly student guide to
the theory and practice of audio description, or media narration, providing readers with the …

This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational
phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research developments since the mid …

This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure. Taking a
phonological perspective, it shows how morpho-syntactic constituents are mapped to …

Translation, accessibility and the viewing experience of foreign, deaf and blind audiences
has long been a neglected area of research within film studies. The same applies to the film …

Two channels have been distinguished in human interaction: one transmits explicit
messages, which may be about anything or nothing; the other transmits implicit messages …