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  <Title>THE CONTRIBUTION OF PARSING TO PROSODIC PHRASING IN AN EXPERIMENTAL TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM</Title>
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THE CONTRIBUTION OF PARSING TO PROSODIC PHRASING IN AN EXPERIMENTAL
TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM
ABSTRACT
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    <Paragraph position="0"> While various aspects of syntactic structure have been shown to bear on the determination of phrase-level prosody, the text-to-speech field has lacked a robust working system to test the possible relations between syntax and prosody. We describe an implemented system which uses the deterministic parser Fidditch to create the input for a set of prosody rules. The prosody rules generate a prosody tree that specifies the location and relative strength of prosodic phrase boundaries. These specifications are converted to annotations for the Bell Labs text-to-speech system that dictate modulations in pitch and duration for the input sentence.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We discuss the results of an experiment to determine the performance of our system. We are encouraged by an initial 5 percent error rate and we see the design of the parser and the modularity of the system allowing changes that will upgrade this rate.</Paragraph>
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