ISCA Archive SpeechProsody 2006
ISCA Archive SpeechProsody 2006

Prosodic boundaries in spontaneous Russian: perceptual annotation and automatic classification

Irina Nesterenko

Perceptual experiments with French and Russian speaking subjects were used to locate intonation phrase boundaries under different experimental conditions. Once inter-listener agreement had been evaluated, we built an automatic predictor based on human boundary/no-boundary judgments and then evaluated how well the predictor behaves. This predictor operates on acoustic features and we looked for an optimal combination of features to mimic perceptual experiment results.