Japanese MULTEXT: a Prosodic Corpus
Shigeyoshi Kitazawa, Shinya Kiriyama, Toshihiko Itoh, Nick J. H. Campbell · 2004
A prosodic corpus of Japanese was developed as a scheduled project by the university researchers in Japan.This paper describes the contents of the corpus: speakers, speaking style, recording conditions, prosodic annotations.The corpus is a Japanese version of the MULTEXT prosodic database of EUROM1.We adopted a J-ToBI prosodic labeling scheme as well as additional labels such as pitich range, prominence, devoicing, and nasalization.We developed an automatic generation of J-ToBI labels.It was proved that 71.6% of tone labels were placed on the correct positions with the correct symbols, and that 73.7% of BI labels were generated correctly.Automatic prosodic label generator was evaluated by expert labeler team and beginner team and found to be helpful for both of them.