Speech Synthesis and Spanish Intonation: The Effects of Peak Alignment on the Perception of Sentence Type

This paper presents a specific example of how intonation in language can be studied computationally using speech synthesis techniques. The study measures the effects of changes to fundamental frequency and peak alignment on the perception of sentence type in Mexico City Spanish. Two one-word sentenc...

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