Extraction of Geometric and Prosodic Features from Human-Gait-Speech Data for Behavioural Pattern Detection: Part II

Author(s):  
Raj Kumar Patra ◽  
Rohit Raja ◽  
Tilendra Shishir Sinha
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-141
Author(s):  
Alberto Rodríguez Márquez

The objective of this paper is to describe the prosodic features of the final intonation contour of minor intonational phrases (ip) and the tonemes of major intonational phrases (IP) in Mexico City’s Spanish variety. The speech data was taken from a spontaneous speech corpus made from speakers from two social networks: neighborhood and labor. Final intonation contours of ip show a predominantly rising movement. These contours are generally produced with greater length in the last syllable of the ip, which represents the most significant difference between both networks in the case of oxitone endings. On the other hand, tonemes are predominantly descendant, although the circumflex accent has an important number of cases within the data set. Tonemes produced by the neighborhood network are produced with larger length than those from the labor network.


2007 ◽  
Vol 01 (03) ◽  
pp. 335-346
Author(s):  
SEBASTIEN CUENDET ◽  
DILEK HAKKANI-TUR ◽  
ELIZABETH SHRIBERG ◽  
JAMES FUNG ◽  
BENOIT FAVRE

Automatic sentence segmentation of spoken language is an important precursor to downstream natural language processing. Previous studies combine lexical and prosodic features, but can impose significant computational challenges because of the large size of feature sets. Little is understood about which features most benefit performance, particularly for speech data from different speaking styles. We compare sentence segmentation for speech from broadcast news versus natural multi-party meetings, using identical lexical and prosodic feature sets across genres. Results based on boosting and forward selection for this task show that (1) features sets can be reduced with little or no loss in performance, and (2) the contribution of different feature types differs significantly by genre. We conclude that more efficient approaches to sentence segmentation and similar tasks can be achieved, especially if genre differences are taken into account.


2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 373-392
Author(s):  
Damien Colas

To talk about the Frenchness of Le comte Ory might sounds like provocation. Being basically a rifacimento of his Viaggio a Reims, Rossini’s penultimate stage work belongs to the corpus of Italo-French operas. Yet there are three reasons for looking at Le comte Ory as an authentic French opera. Firstly, in the newly composed parts of the work, Rossini avoided the traditional features of the closed numbers typical of the Italian tradition by inserting recitatives inside the numbers and by merging closed numbers and subsequent recitatives, especially at the end of Act II. Secondly, the French lines written by Scribe to fit the already composed music follow poetic patterns from the Middle Ages, of which the prosodic features were closer to Italian than Classical French. Last, the very choice of the legend of Ory is typical of the troubadour style that had been fashionable in Paris since the last decades of the 18th century, and it turns out that this particular legend was extremely popular back then, as witnessed by the variety of local variants that were published in the 19th century.


Author(s):  
А.Zh Amanbayeva ◽  
Zh.T. Zhumabayeva

Author(s):  
Ítalo Rodrigues ◽  
Jadiane Dionisio ◽  
Rogério Sales Gonçalves

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