15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)

Barcelona, Spain
August 3-9, 2003


Length and Identification of Brazilian Portuguese Segments in Continuous Speech Signal

Leticia Rebollo, Filipe Barbosa, Rachel Costa, Rosángela Lannes, Josée Nicolau, Carlota Rosa, Fernando Resende

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

This paper identifies the pertinent acoustic segments to be applied in a Brazilian Portuguese text-to-speech synthesis system. In order to obtain a normalized length measurement, the vocalic segments are analyzed with respect to the lexical and phrasal stresses, besides its syllable positions in the initial and at the end of the utterances. Results show that these features are relevant factors to establish the acoustic units' duration mean.

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Bibliographic reference.  Rebollo, Leticia / Barbosa, Filipe / Costa, Rachel / Lannes, Rosángela / Nicolau, Josée / Rosa, Carlota / Resende, Fernando (2003): "Length and identification of Brazilian Portuguese segments in continuous speech signal", In ICPhS-15, 3073-3076.