ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1995
ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1995

Generating French intonation at different speaking rates

Frédéric Beaugendre

This paper presents a series of experiments which aim at answering the question of how speakers adapt their prosodic strategy according to speaking rate. The results are interpreted both at a linguistic and a phonetic level. Furthermore, a set of rules was established that introduce speech rate as a new input parameter of the LIMSI Text-To-Speech synthesizer.