An annotation system for melodic aspects of German spontaneous speech
Christel Brindöpke, Brigitte Schaffranietz · 1998
This article presents a phonetically defined annotation system for German speech melody, whose descriptive units cover the perceptive relevant pitch movements. The units for the melodic annotation are based on the model for read German utterances [1]. The implementation of our descriptive melodic units as part of a recently developed labelling and testing environment for melodic aspects of speech allows a comfortable and intersubjective application of the melodic units for the annotation of speech. An experimental evaluation by a rating-experiment secures that the melodic units describe spontaneous speech as adequately as read speech 1 Introduction During the last years there have been an increasing interest in the field of prosodic annotation of speech [8, 10, 12, 7, 6]. This originates from developments in speech technology and linguistic resarch of spontaneous speech. We propose an annotation system expecially for melodic aspects of German speech whose units are perceptively rele...