New Prosody Phrase Prediction Model Based on Whole Sentence Similarity Computing
In speech synthesis systems, prosody phrase prediction has great impact on the naturalness of synthesized speech. To avoid some disadvantages of prevailing decision tree based method, a new model for prosody phrase boundary prediction based on whole sentence similarity computing is proposed in this paper. Through tests on 1000 sentences, it can be proved that the new model has the ability of outperforming the decision tree based method with an affordable annotated corpus.