Rhythm in languages, in speech (technology) and in general. Synonym or just homographic homophones?
Speaker: William Barry
Institution:
Saarland University
Abstract:
This talk addresses the nature and role of rhythm in speech and language science and its implications for speech technology.
Within the realm of Linguistics, "rhythm" is an expression that commonly accompanies the terms "stress" and" intonation" in accounts of prosodic structuring in spoken language. The term is also used for language-typology partitioning, and it is implicitly or explicitly included in connection with verse metre in the cross-disciplinary study of poetics. "Rhythm" has not figured prominently in speech technology in spite of general recognition of the importance of prosody in ASR and Speech Synthesis.
Decades of research into "Rhythm", in both speech production and speech perception, have highlighted differing aspects of the phenomenon, without providing a unifying theory.