Heba, Abdelwahab and Pellegrini, Thomas
and Jorquera, Tom and André-Obrecht, Régine
and Lorré, Jean-Pierre
Lexical Emphasis Detection in Spoken French using F-BANKs and neural networks.
(2017)
In: International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2017), 23 October 2017 - 25 October 2017 (Le Mans, France).
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68456-7_20
Abstract
Expressiveness and non-verbal information in speech are active research topics in speech processing. In this work, we are interested in detecting emphasis at word-level as a mean to identify what are the focus words in a given utterance. We compare several machine learning techniques (Linear Discriminant Analysis, Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks) for this task carried out on SIWIS, a French speech synthesis database. Our approach consists first in aligning the spoken words to the speech signal and second to feed classifier with filter bank coefficients in order to take a binary decision at word-level: neutral/emphasized. Evaluation results show that a three-layer neural network performed best with a 93% accuracy.
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Additional Information: | Thanks to Springer editor. This papers appears in volume 10583 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISSN : 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-319-68455-0 The original PDF is available at: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-68456-7_20 |
HAL Id: | hal-02559768 |
Audience (conference): | International conference proceedings |
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Institution: | French research institutions > Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT3 (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT2J (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Université Toulouse 1 Capitole - UT1 (FRANCE) Other partners > Linagora (FRANCE) |
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Deposited On: | 21 Apr 2020 09:59 |
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