ISCA Archive ICSLP 2002
ISCA Archive ICSLP 2002

X-JToBI: an extended j-toBI for spontaneous speech

Kikuo Maekawa, Hideaki Kikuchi, Yosuke Igarashi, Jennifer Venditti

We report on the new X-JToBI prosodic labeling scheme, the eXtended version of J_ToBI which has grown out of our work on annotating prosodic features of spontaneous speech. Among the new characteristics of X-JToBI are 1) Exact match between the time-stamp of tone labels and the timing of physical events, 2) Enlargement of the inventory of boundary pitch movements, 3) Extension and ramification of the usage of break indices, and 4) Newly defined labels for filled-pause and non-lexical prominence.