Speech Prosody Portal

Opening

Opening remarks
Prof. Nobuaki Minematsu, general chair of Speech Prosody 2020

Keynotes

Intonational phonology can shed light on the nature of prosody in Japanese children with ASD: Dissociating linguistic and para-linguistic aspects of intonation
Dr. Reiko MAZUKA (RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University)

Modeling the influence of voice quality setting on segmental structure
Asst. Prof. Scott Reid Moisik (School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University)

Tutorial

Streamlining the processing of F0 data using the R package 'intonation'
Dr. Aaron Albin (Kobe University, Japan)

Special session: Temporal Articulation as It Relates to Communicative Prosody

Special Session on Temporal Articulation as it relates to Communicative Prosody
Donna Erickson, Michinao Matsui, Caroline Menezes

How to hit that beat: Testing acoustic anchors of rhythmic movement with speech
Chia-Yuan Lin, Tamara Rathcke

Listeners’ sensitivity to syllable complexity in spontaneous speech tempo perception
Leendert Plug, Robert Lennon, Rachel Smith

Temporal organization of spoken utterances from an articulatory point of view
Donna Erickson, Ting Huang, Caroline Menezes

Prosodic and Segmental Effects on the Durational Variability of Svarabhakti Vowels in Spanish /Cr/ Clusters
Benjamin Schmeiser

Articulatory asymmetry in consonantal sequences: A case from English, Fukui Japanese and Chaozhou Chinese.
Kenji Yoshida, Akira Utsugi, Jia Hui Wu, Tetsuo Nitta, Kiyoe Sakamoto, Yoko Ichimura

Special session: Acquisition of Interactive Emotional / Social Affective Prosody

The Effect of Silence Feature in Dimensional Speech Emotion Recognition
Bagus Tris Atmaja, Masato Akagi

Perception of Audio-visual Expressions in German and Cantonese by Native Speakers of Hindi
Hansjörg Mixdorff, Debashis Ghosh, Albert Rilliard, Angelika Hönemann

An Acoustic Study of Emotional Speech Produced by Italian Learners of Japanese
Motoko Ueyama, Xinyue Li

Prosodic and Voice Quality Feature of Japanese Speech Conveying Attitudes: Mandarin Chinese Learners and Japanese Native Speakers
Xinyue Li, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Ryoko Hayashi

A cross-linguistics study on how emotion is perceived in sport commentaries: comparing prosodic cues from Japanese and French
Catherine Mathon, Carolyn Fontagnol

‘I think’ is what I mean: Prosody as a signifier of speaker attitude across cultures and communication contexts
Lucy Kind, Victoria Murphy

Preboundary lengthening in Somali
David Le Gac, Sabrina Bendjaballah

The appropriateness of prenuclear accent types – Evidence for information structural effects
Stefan Baumann, Janina Kalbertodt, Jane Mertens

Prosodic phrasing in Russian spontaneous and read speech: evidence from large speech corpora
Tatiana Kachkovskaia, Pavel Skrelin

An Autosegmental-Metrical Analysis of Rising Contours in Standard Albanian
Enkeleida Kapia, Felicitas Kleber, Jonathan Harrington

Dutch Sentence Intonation Revisited
Philippe Martin

ToBI Representations in Intonational Phonology: Time for a (melodic) change?
Philippe Martin

How prosodic prominence influences fricative spectra in English
Jonathan Barnes, Alejna Brugos, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Nanette Veilleux

Lower Working Memory Capacity is Associated with Shorter Prosodic Phrases: Implications for Speech Production Planning
Jason Bishop, Darlene Intlekofer

The British English rising contour: an exception in read speech?
Sophie Herment, Anne Tortel, Laetitia Leonarduzzi

Intonational Phonology of Malagasy: Pitch Accents Demarcate Syntactic Constituents
Jake Aziz

The role of sonority profile and order of place of articulation on gestural overlap in Georgian
Caroline Crouch, Argyro Katsika, Ioana Chitoran

Effects of prosodic prominence on obstruent-intrinsic F0 and VOT in German
James Kirby, Felicitas Kleber, Jessica Siddins, Jonathan Harrington

Pitch accent and phrase boundaries: Kinematic evidence from Japanese
Karen Tsai, Argyro Katsika

Questioning Questions: The Illusion of Variation in African American English Polar Question Intonation
Tracy Conner

K-Max: a tool for estimating, analysing, and evaluating tonal targets
Antoin Rodgers

Focus

Time-series analysis of F0 in Papuan Malay contrastive focus
Constantijn Kaland, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann

On some factors affecting the choice of tune in Russian wh-questions
Pavel Duryagin

Durational cues to stress and phrasing are preserved post-focally in English
Danfeng Wu

Tonal variations in Honggu Chinese
Chunyu Ge, Aijun Li

Phonetic Realisation of Narrow Focus in Wu-Mandarin Bilinguals
Wenxi Fei, Mingyu Weng, Albert Lee

The Effect of Focus and Prosodic Boundary on the Two T3 sandhi in Northeastern Mandarin
Ping Cui, Jianjing Kuang, Yunjia Wang

Revisiting focus production in Mandarin Chinese: Some preliminary findings
Yike Yang, Si Chen

*The phonetic realization of contrastive focus in Shanghainese
Jia Tian, Jianjing Kuang

The amount and scope of phrase-final lengthening in Korean
Jiyoung Jang, Argyro Katsika

The role of focus in accentual lengthening in American English: Kinematic analyses
Argyro Katsika, Jiyoung Jang, Jelena Krivokapić, Louis Goldstein, Elliot Saltzman

On the Prosody of Contrastive Topics in German Interviews
Arndt Riester, Tobias Schröer, Stefan Baumann

Multi-modal

A Cross-Linguistic Study of Open-Palm Hand Gestures and their Prosodic Correlates
Gaëlle Ferre, Amina Mettouchi

Listeners and Lookers: Using Pitch Height and Gaze Duration for Inferring Mental States
Juliane T. Zimmermann, Simon Wehrle, Francesco Cangemi, Martine Grice, Kai Vogeley

Delexicalised Auditory Priming of Implicit Prosody
Joy Mills

An Eye-tracking Study on Mandarin Tone Perception of Children
Xifan Zhang, Ting Wang

Silent and oral sentence reading in Estonian: investigating the effect of phonetic quantity on eye movements
Pärtel Lippus, Kaidi Lõo

Analysis of the factors involved in person-directed pointing gestures in dialogue speech
Carlos Ishi, Ryusuke Mikata, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Word prominence ratings in Swedish television news readings – effects of pitch accents and head movements
Gilbert Ambrazaitis, Johan Frid, David House

*Interlocutor-dependent intra-speaker speech rate variability in interaction: a pilot study on four conversations in modern Hebrew
Yshai Kalmanovitch

L1 Acquisition

Attention Distribution and Integration of Non-native Segments and Tones by Early Multilingual Speakers
Yi Liu, Jinghong Ning

Revisiting infant distributional learning using event-related potentials: Does Unimodal always inhibit and Bimodal always facilitate?
Liquan Liu, Varghese Peter, Jia Hoong Ong, Paola Escudero

The Prosody of Questions in Brazilian Portuguese Infant Directed Speech
Cristina Name, Juan Manuel Sosa

Phonological and Phonetic Realizations of Downstepping in Child Speech
Jill Thorson, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

Syntax / Semantics / Pragmatics

The prosodic realization of rhetorical and information-questions in German spontaneous speech
Bettina Braun, Marieke Einfeldt, Gloria Esposito, Nicole Dehé

Prosody or syntax? The perception of focus by Mandarin speakers
Mengzhu Yan, Sasha Calhoun, Paul Warren

Syntax-prosody Interface in Perception of Right Dislocation in Mandarin
Jing Ji

The contribution of pitch accents and boundary tones to intonation meaning
Amalia Arvaniti, Mary Baltazani, Stella Gryllia

Tonal specification of speaker commitment in Salerno Italian wh-questions
Riccardo Orrico, Mariapaola D'Imperio

Perceptual Prominence of Accent Types and the Role of Expectations
Christine T. Röhr, Stefan Baumann, Petra B. Schumacher, Martine Grice

Verb-Second and Initial-Weak Prosody
Hisao Tokizaki

Wh-indeterminates and Prosody in Hong Kong Cantonese
Yu-Yin Hsu, Anqi Xu

The prosody of rhetorical and information-seeking questions in Estonian: preliminary results
Eva Liina Asu, Heete Sahkai, Pärtel Lippus

*Influences of rhythm on word order in German
Isabelle Franz, Markus Bader, Frank Domahs, Gerrit Kentner

The prosodic marking of rhetorical questions in Standard Chinese
Katharina Zahner, Manluolan Xu, Yiya Chen, Nicole Dehé, Bettina Braun

Investigating relationships between intonational and syntactic phrasing in Ruruuli/Lunyala
Margaret Zellers, Saudah Namyalo, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich

Hat Contour in Dutch: Form and Function
Gouming Martens, Michael Wagner, Francisco Torreira

Statistical modeling of prosodic contours of four speech acts in Brazilian Portuguese
Luma Miranda, João Moraes, Albert Rilliard

Prosodic encoding of sarcasm at the sentence level in Dutch
Nelleke Jansen, Aoju Chen

The sound of quotation marks: Prosodic characteristics of subclausal quotation in English
Bethany Sturman

The High-fall Contour in North American English: A Case Study in Imperatives
Emma Gibson, Francisco Torreira, Michael Wagner

Acoustic-Prosodic and Articulatory Characteristics of the Mandarin Speech Conveying Dominance or Submissiveness
Puyang Geng, Wentao Gu, Keith Johnson, Donna Erickson

Durational and Pitch Marking of Rhetorical Wh-questions in Mandarin
Roger Yu-Hsiang Lo, Angelika Kiss

Speech rate and syntactically conditioned influences on prosodic boundaries
Seung-Eun Kim, Sam Tilsen

Prosody distinguishes Estonian V2 from Finnish and Swedish
Anders Holmberg, Heete Sahkai, Anne Tamm

Perception / Word Recognition / Lexicon

Pitch peak and word predictability: Results from CSJ corpus
Daiki Hashimoto

Lexical stress perception as a function of acoustic properties and the native language of the listener
Anders Eriksson, Juraj Šimko, Antti Suni, Martti Vainio, Rosalba Nodari

Papuan Malay word stress reduces lexical alternatives
Constantijn Kaland, Vincent J. van Heuven

How sleep-mediated memory consolidation modulates the generalization across talkers: evidence from tone identification
Zhen Qin, Caicai Zhang

Typical and rare post-nuclear melodic movements in Russian
Tatiana Kachkovskaia, Anna Mamushina, Alyona Portnova

Word goodness affects the L1-dependent ability to store pitch contrasts
Asano, Mitterer

Vocabulary structure affects word recognition: Evidence from German listeners
Jenny Yu, Robert Mailhammer, Anne Cutler

Tone

The acquisition of tone sandhi of the Xiamen dialect
Xiaolin Li, Peggy Pik Ki Mok

The effects of tonal experience on the categorization of Cantonese lexical tones into Japanese native pitch accent categories
Janice Wing Sze Wong, Takayuki Arai

Carryover Effects on Tones in Hong Kong Cantonese
Bin Li, Yihan Guan, Si Chen

Tonal Adaptation of Disyllabic Letter-Character Pattern in Mandarin Alphabetical Words
Hongwei Ding, Yiling Li

A Potential New Sound Change after Tonogenesis: A Preliminary Perceptual Study on the Tonal Contrast of Wenzhou Wu Chinese
Weijun Zhang, Peggy Pik Ki Mok

The three way tonal system of Sylheti
Priti Raychoudhury, Shakuntala Mahanta

Revisiting Neutral Tone in Mandarin Broadcast News Speech
Chenzi Xu

Intermediate features are not useful for tone perception
Yue Chen, Yi Xu

Lexical Propensity and Taiwanese Min Tone sandhi Rules
Hohsien Pan, Hsiaotung Huang

*Creak in the phonetic space of low tones in Beijing Mandarin, Cantonese, and White Hmong
Seoyoung Kim, Claudia Matachana, Alex Nyman, Kristine Yu

Speech Rhythm and Timing

Adult Early-Bilingual Speech Rhythm: Evidence from Spanish and English
Alexander Aldrich

Rhythm of East-Asian Speakers of English in English Conversation
Hyunsong Chung

A comparative study of rhythmic patterns in non-native Mandarin speech by Russian, Japanese and Vietnamese learners
Yiran Ding, Wang Dai, Kaiqi Fu, Yanlu Xie, Jinsong Zhang

The Accentual Phrase in Urdu/Hindi: A prosodic unit at the interplay between rhythm and intonation
Farhat Jabeen, Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie

Convergence of L1 and L2 speech rhythm in Cantonese-English bilingual speakers
Wai Ling Law, Olga Dmitrieva, Alexander Francis

*Linguistic experience and rhythm perception
Sumio Kobayashi, Amalia Arvaniti

Jaw dancing American style: A way to teach English rhythm
Ian Wilson, Donna Erickson, Tim Vance, Jeff Moore

*Rhythm and Speaking Rate in Assamese Varieties
Leena Dihingia, Priyankoo Sarmah

Speech rhythm in multiethnolectal Zurich German
Marie-Anne Morand, Melissa Bruno, Nora Julmi, Sandra Schwab, Stephan Schmid

*Prominence clash does not induce rhythmic adjustments in Italian
Francesco Burroni, Sam Tilsen

The “other” Spanish: Methodological issues in the study of speech timing in Chilean Spanish
Isadora Reynolds, Olga Maxwell, Gillian Wigglesworth

*Rhythm in Sora Trilingual Readers
Luke Horo, Priyankoo Sarmah

Speech rhythm in Ghanaian languages: The cases of Akan, Ewe and Ghanaian English
Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, Paul Okyere Omane, Frank Kügler

Prosody in Language and Music

Do Musicians Speak Differently? Preliminary Results of a Production Study
Noam Amir, Sharon Bolle Fridman, Ortal Shakeman, Nofar Shuli, Avi Karni

Segment Duration and Proportion in Mandarin Singing
Cong Zhang, Xinrong Wang

Voice Quality in Low and High Registers in Two Different Styles of Singing
Alexsandro Meireles, Hansjörg Mixdorff

Prosodic Alignments in Shadowed Singing of Familiar and Novel Music
Eran Raveh, Maya Twig, Bernd Möbius, Oded Zehavi

Musical Memory and Pitch Discrimination Abilities as Correlates of Vocal Pitch Control for Speakers with Different Tone and Musical Experiences
Li-Hsin Ning

A Comparison Between Speech and Musical Rhythms: A Case Study of Folk Music in Standard and Northern Thai
Chawadon Ketkaew

Regional Dialect

Temporal variability in four Alemannic dialects and its influence on the respective varieties of Swiss Standard German
Urban Bruno Zihlmann

Dialect Identification of Spoken North Sámi Language Varieties Using Prosodic Features
Sofoklis Kakouros, Katri Hiovain, Martti Vainio, Juraj Šimko

Lack of Prosodic Focus in Chongqing Dialect and Possible Historical Sources
Zixin Qin, Yi Xu

Investigating the Forensic Applications of Global and Local Temporal Representations of Speech for Dialect Discrimination
Leah Bradshaw, Vincent Hughes, Eleanor Chodroff

The Roles of Segment and Tone in Bi-dialectal Auditory Word recognition
Min Liu, Yiya Chen

Acoustic and Phonological Analyses of Tones in Taifeng Chinese
Aijun Li, Xiaoyan Zhang, Zhiqiang Li

*Pitch Range Variation in High German (L1) and Low German (L2)
Jörg Peters, Marina Frank, Marina Rohloff

Intonation and Voice Quality of Northern Appalachian English : A First Look
Li-Fang Lai, Janet van Hell

Speaking Style and Paralinguistics

*Using Prosody to Find Mentions of Urgent Problems in Radio Broadcasts
Nigel Ward, James Jodoin, Anindita Nath, Olac Fuentes

Prosodic and Phonetic Aspects of Paralinguistic Utterances with the German Modal Particle schon in L1 and L2
Miki Ikoma

Prosody and Political Style: The Case of Barack Obama and the L+H* Pitch Accent
Nicole Holliday, Jason Bishop, Grace Kuo

*Macro-rhythm in English and Spanish: Evidence from Radio Newscaster Speech
Christine Prechtel

Analysis and modeling of between-sentence pauses in news speech by Japanese newscasters
Shizuka Nakamura, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Tatsuya Kawahara

What Makes a Speaker Charismatic? Producing and Perceiving Charismatic Speech
Zixiaofan Yang, Jessica Huynh, Riku Tabata, Nishmar Cestero, Tomer Aharoni, Julia Hirschberg

*Free Verse and Beyond: How to Classify Post-modern Spoken Poetry
Hussein Hussein, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek, Timo Baumann

Accent-Groups vs. Stress-Groups in Czech Clear and Conversational Speech
Jan Volín, Radek Skarnitzl

*Do charismatic people produce charismatic speech? On the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and prosodic features of speaker charisma in female speakers
Jan Michalsky, Oliver Niebuhr, Lars Penke

*Speaking Style Prosodic Variation and the Prosody-Syntax Interface: A Large-Scale Corpus Study
George Christodoulides

Socio-phonetics

On the role of prosody in the production and evaluation of German hate speech
Jana Neitsch, Oliver Niebuhr

Can we hear physical and social space together through prosody?
Ambre Davat, Véronique Aubergé, Gang Feng

Cross cultural differences in arousal and valence perceptions of voice quality
Donna Erickson, Shigeto Kawahara, Albert Rilliard, Ryoko Hayashi, Toshiyuki Sadanobu, Yongwei Li, Hayato Daikuhara, João de Moraes, Kerrie Obert

Gender- and register-biased patterns in f0 use: How does prosody contribute to (in)formality in Japanese?
Céleste Guillemot, Shin-ichiro Sano

*Intonation of Greek–Turkish contact: a real-time diachronic study
Mary Baltazani, Joanna Przedlacka, John Coleman

Uptalk interpretation as a function of listening experience
Asano, Yuan, Grohe, Weber, Antoniou, Cutler

*Prosody and Language Contact: An Experimental Investigation of Interrogative Strategies in Navarro-Labourdin Basque
Maia Duguine, Aritz Irurtzun

*Att-HACK: An Expressive Speech Database with Social Attitudes
Clément Le Moine, Nicolas Obin

Continental French, Corsican French, and the interpretation of intonation: The effect of implicit social cues depends on exposure
James S. German, Cristel Portes

Conversation / Dialog / Disfluency

Tracing changes over the course of the conversation: A case study on filled pauses rates
Vered Silber-Varod, Daphna Amit, Anat Lerner

*The Prosody of Fluent Repetitions in Spontaneous Speech
Hong Zhang

Ten Prosodic Patterns of Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation
Nigel Ward

The Relationship between Prosodic Ability and Conversational Prosodic Entrainment
Heike Lehnert-Lehouillier, Susana Terrazas, Steven Sandoval, Rachel Boren

Fluidity: Real-time Feedback on Acoustic Measures of Second Language Speech Fluency
Ralph Rose

Breath Holds in Chat and Chunk Phases of Multiparty Casual Conversation
Kätlin Aare, Emer Gilmartin, Marcin Wlodarczak, Pärtel Lippus, Mattias Heldner

Phonetic fluency of Japanese learners of English: automatic vs native and non-native assessment
Mariko Kondo, Lionel Fontan, Maxime Le Coz, Takayuki Konishi, Sylvain Detey

An Acoustic Analysis of Inbreath Noises in Read and Spontaneous Speech
Juergen Trouvain, Raphael Werner, Bernd Möbius

Discourse Planning Strategies in Chinese L2 English Speech: Chunking Preference and Disfluency Attributes
Yiyuan Liao, Jue Yu

Between and Within Speaker Transitions in Multiparty Conversation
Emer Gilmartin, Kätlin Aare, Maria O'Reilly, Marcin Wlodarczak

Prosody in Audiology and Phoniatrics

*The effect of CI experience on the acquisition of Mandarin tones by early-implanted children with cochlear implants
Yanan Shen, Zulayati Wufuer, Yujun Ren, Ping Tang, Nan Xu Rattanasone, Ivan Yuen, Katherine Demuth

Assessing the Intonation Style of Speakers with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Simon Wehrle, Francesco Cangemi, Harriet Hanekamp, Kai Vogeley, Martine Grice

Looking for the edge: emerging segmentation abilities in atypical development
Sónia Frota, Jovana Pejovic, Cátia Severino, Marina Vigário

Efficacy of Multi-Talker Phonetic Training in Mandarin Tone Perception for Native Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users
Hao Zhang, Jing Zhang, Hongwei Ding, Yongqin Li

Acoustic Attributes of Mandarin Retroflex Vowel “ɚ” Produced by Prelingually Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants
Yu-xin Lin, Jue Yu, Yiyuan Liao

Labialization and Prosodic Modulation in Italian Dysarthric Speech by Parkinsonian Speakers: A Preliminary Investigation
Barbara Gili Fivela, Sonia Immacolata d'Apolito, Giorgia Di Prizio

L2 / Bilingual

The Effects of Explicit Rule and Acoustic-perceptual Instructions on Chinese ESL Learners’ Prosodic Acquisition of English Lexical Stress
Hsueh Chu Chen, Jingxuan Tian

Perception of English Intonation by Japanese Learners of English
Tomoko Hori, Michiko Toyama, Mari Akatsuka

*Focus prosody in Japanese-English early bilinguals: A pilot study
Albert Lee, Yi Xu

*UNINTENTIONAL IMPOLITE INTONATION IN L2 SPANISH REQUESTS PRODUCED BY CHINESE WORKERS LIVING IN MADRID
Cristina Herrero, Empar DevÍs

The Development of Prosodic Focus-marking and Declarative Question Intonation in Thai Learners’ Mandarin
Zenghui Liu, Shufen Liang, Lei Zeng

When does intonational transfer occur? A comparative study of interrogative rises in four groups of L2 Japanese learners
Aaron Albin, Ruilai Wang

On Rhythm, Prosodic Grouping, and Declination Pattern of Taiwan Mandarin Learners of English
Sally Chen, Janice Fon

Learning to Anticipate Contrast with Prosody: A Visual World Study with L2 Learners
Chie Nakamura, Jesse Harris, Sun-Ah Jun

Present state analysis and measurement of pronunciation training effectiveness in English acquisition: Relationships between production patterns and English proficiencies
Michiko Mochizuki Sudo, Takayuki Kagomiya, Tomoko Hori

Phonological and Phonetic Realization of Narrow Focus in Declarative Sentences by Jinan L2 English Learners
Aijun Li, Xinyuan Wan, Chenyang Zhao, Lin Zhu

The production of Estonian quantity degrees by Spanish L1 speakers
Katrin Leppik, Pärtel Lippus, Eva Liina Asu

On the Learnability of Nuclear and Prenuclear Accents ― Using Taiwan Mandarin Learners of English as an Example
Sherry Chien, Janice Fon

The production of French continuation contours at different prosodic boundaries by Japanese learners
Rachel Albar, Hiyon Yoo

*Production of French final stressed syllables in Accentual Phrase by Chinese learners: A pilot study
Lei Xi, Sandrine Wachs, Rachid Ridouane

Effects of Japanese Prosody on English Word Production: Interaction between Voicing and Gemination
Kiyoko Yoneyama, Mafuyu Kitahara, Keiichi Tajima

Lexical Stress Assignment to Base, Inflected and Derived Words in English by Japanese and Seoul Korean Learners of English
Mariko Sugahara

Speech Synthesis / Prosody and Speech Technology

Analysis of speech prosody using WaveNet embeddings: The Lombard effect
Juraj Šimko, Martti Vainio, Antti Suni

Using Prosody to Spot Location Mentions
Gerardo Cervantes, Nigel Ward

Are you professional?: Analysis of prosodic features between a newscaster and amateur speakers through partial substitution by DNN-TTS
Takuya Ozuru, Yusuke Ijima, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu

Using the forward-backward divergence segmentation algorithm and a neural network to predict L2 speech fluency
Lionel Fontan, Maxime Le Coz, Charlotte Alazard

Probing the phonetic and phonological knowledge of tones in Mandarin TTS models
Jian Zhu

Introducing Prosodic Speaker Identity for a Better Expressive Speech Synthesis Control
Aghilas Sini, Sébastien Le Maguer, Damien Lolive, Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie

*Prosodic Prominence and Boundaries in Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Synthesis
Antti Suni, Sofoklis Kakouros, Martti Vainio, Juraj Šimko

Modelling Intonation in Spectrograms for Neural Vocoder based Text-to-Speech
Vincent Wan, Jonathan Shen, Hanna Siilen, Rob Clark

Testing the GlórCáil System in a Speaker and Affect Voice Transformation Task
Andy Murphy, Irena Yanushevskaya, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide, Christer Gobl

Corpus design for expressive speech: impact of the utterance length
Meysam Shamsi, Jonathan Chevelu, Nelly Barbot, Damien Lolive

Physiological pitch range estimation from a brief speech input: A study on a bilingual parallel speech corpus
Wei Zhang, Yanlu Xie, Jinsong Zhang

Perception of prosodic variation for speech synthesis using an unsupervised discrete representation of F0
Zack Hodari, Catherine Lai, Simon King

*How a Listener Influences the Speaker
Timo Baumann

DNN-based Speech Synthesis considering Dialogue-Act Information and its Evaluation with Respect to Illocutionary Act Naturalness
Nobukatsu Hojo, Yusuke Ijima, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Noboru Miyazaki, Takahito Kawanishi, Kunio Kashino

Automatic Processing and Analysis

Tree-based Clustering of Vowel Duration Ratio Toward Dictionary-based Automatic Assessment of Prosody in L2 English Word Utterances
Kohei Kitamura, Tsuneo Kato, Seiichi Yamamoto

Using reading mistakes as features for sleepiness detection in speech
Vincent Martin, Gabrielle Chapouthier, Mathilde Rieant, Jean-Luc Rouas, Pierre Philip

An analysis of prosodic boundary detection in German and Austrian German read speech
Barbara Schuppler, Bogdan Ludusan

Speech, laughter and everything in between: A modulation spectrum-based analysis
Bogdan Ludusan, Petra Wagner

Towards automatic annotation of prosodic prominence levels in Austrian German
Julian Linke, Anneliese Kelterer, Markus A. Dabrowski, Dina El Zarka, Barbara Schuppler

*Automatic Tone Recognition of Ao Language
Parismita Gogoi, Moakala Tzudir, Priyankoo Sarmah, S. R. M. Prasanna

ProsoBox, a Praat Plugin for Analysing Prosody
Jean-Philippe Goldman, Anne Catherine Simon

Using Prosody to Improve Dependency Parsing
Hussein Ghaly, Michael Mandel

Word-based Neural Prosody Modeling with ToBI
Hee Hwang, Kristine Yu

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10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020