We report four experiments that explored the cognitive bases of vocal imitation. Specifically,
we investigated the accuracy with which normal individuals vocally imitated the pitch-time …

Vocal imitation is often described as a specialized form of learning that facilitates social
communication and that involves less cognitively sophisticated mechanisms than more …

Cantor Digitalis is a performative singing synthesizer that is composed of two main parts: a
chironomic control interface and a parametric voice synthesizer. The control interface is …

La nécessité d'une description et d'une comparaison des tracés prosodiques des différentes
variétés linguistiques de l'espace roman a été formalisée à l'origine lors de la mise en place …

This paper has a twofold goal:(i) to propose how and why to identify Discourse Markers
(DM), showing that the formal features marking this category are of prosodic nature and can …

Typical foreign language (L2) pronunciation training focuses mainly on individual sounds.
Intonation, the patterns of pitch change across words or phrases is often neglected, despite …

T-Voks is an augmented theremin that controls Voks, a per-formative singing synthesizer.
Originally developed for control with a graphic tablet interface, Voks allows for real-time pitch …

Cantor Digitalis, a real-time formant synthesizer controlled by a graphic tablet and a stylus, is
used for assessment of melodic precision and accuracy in singing synthesis. Melodic …

Current statistical parametric text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis methods allow production of
neutral speech with acceptable quality. However, prosody is often qualified as unsatisfactory …

Este estudo encádrase no marco dunha serie de investigacións realizadas no ámbito do
proxecto AMPER–Atlas Multimedia Prosódico do Espazo Románico (Contini 2007: 9-21)–e …