- The Role of Prosody in Dialect Synthesis and Authentication
- The Role of Prosody in Dialect Synthesis and Authentication
- ㆍ 저자명
- Yoon. Kyu-Chul
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 말소리와 음성과학
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2009년|1권 1호|pp.25-31 (7 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 한국음성학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물|ENG| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
The purpose of this paper is to examine the viability of synthesizing Masan dialect with Seoul dialect and to examine the role of prosody in the authentication of the synthesized Masan dialect. The synthesis was performed by transferring one or more of the prosodic features of the Masan utterance onto the Seoul utterance. The hypothesis is that, given an utterance composed of the phonemes shared by both dialects, as more prosodic features of the Masan utterance are transferred onto the Seoul utterance, the Seoul utterance will be identified as more authentic Masan utterance. The prosodic features involved were the fundamental frequency contour, the segmental durations, and the intensity contour. The synthesized Masan utterances were evaluated by thirteen native speakers of Masan dialect. The result showed that the fundamental frequency contour and the segmental durations had main effects on the perceptual shift from Seoul to Masan dialect.