Phonetic variations: Impact of the communicative situation
(2014) Speech Prosody 7 — Location: Trinity College Dublin (20.May.2014)
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- While speech synthesis research is now focussing on the generation of various speaking styles or emotions, very few stud- ies have considered the possibility of including phonetic variations according to the communicative situation of the targeted speech (sports commentaries, TV news, etc.). This paper proposes a phonetic analysis of large French corpora to assess the influence exerted by three situational ‘traits’: read/spontaneous, media/non-media and expressive/non-expressive. It shows that some variations, like elision, tend to be more frequent in spontaneous and non-media speech, conversely to liaisons which appear more often in read and media speech. Interestingly, no phonetic variation draws a clearcut distinction between expressive and non-expressive speech. Finally, a prosodic analysis indicates that the phonetic variations are not directly correlated with the rhythmic features of their corresponding situational ‘trait’
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Brognaux, S., & Drugman, T. (2014). Phonetic variations: Impact of the communicative situation. In Nick Campbell, Dafydd Gibbon & Daniel Hirst (eds.) (ed.), Social and Linguistic Speech Prosody. Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Speech Prosody (p. p. 428-432). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/220823