Performative Vocal Synthesis for Foreign Language Intonation Practice
Xiao Xiao, Barbara Kühnert, Nicolas Audibert, Grégoire Locqueville, Claire Pillot-Loiseau, Haohan Zhang, Christophe d’Alessandro · 2023
Typical foreign language (L2) pronunciation training focuses mainly on individual sounds. Intonation, the patterns of pitch change across words or phrases is often neglected, despite its key role in word-level intelligibility and in the expression of attitudes and affect. This paper examines hand-controlled real-time vocal synthesis, known as Performative Vocal Synthesis (PVS), as an interaction technique for practicing L2 intonation in computer aided pronunciation training (CAPT).