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Transferring a structure from the visual modality to the aural one presents a difficult challenge. In this work we are experimenting with prosody modeling for the synthesized speech representation of tabulated structures. This is achieved by analyzing naturally spoken descriptions of data tables and a following feedback by blind and sighted users. The derived prosodic phrase accent and pause break placement and values are examined in terms of successfully conveying semantically important visual information through prosody control in Table-to-Speech synthesis. Finally, the quality of the information provision of synthesized tables when utilizing the proposed prosody specification is studied against plain synthesis.
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Spiliotopoulos, D., Xydas, G., Kouroupetroglou, G. (2005). Diction Based Prosody Modeling in Table-to-Speech Synthesis. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P., Pavelka, T. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3658. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11551874_38
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