TY - GEN

T1 - Russian phonetic variability and connected speech transcription

AU - Kuznetsov, Vladimir I.

AU - Sherstinova, Tatiana Y.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000.

PY - 2000

Y1 - 2000

N2 - The study of pronunciation variabilityis an important phonetic task, which has many applications (in speech synthesis and recognition systems, language teaching, forensic phonetics, etc.), and well-known variability of Russian speech deserves special investigations. Generally, one may distinguish geographical, functional, social and national variabilityof pronunciation. At the same time anyty pe of pronunciation is characterised byits own internal variability. It concerns as well the standard speech. Database of contemporary Russian speech variabilityis currentlybeing created in the Laboratory of the Experimental Phonetics of St. Petersburg Universityin order to investigate pronunciation variance of different speech types. The database of sound material is formed by recordings of the PhoneticallyRepresentati ve Texts pronounced by1) standard Russian speakers, 2) regional Russian speakers, 3) speakers from the former USSR republics to which Russian is a second language, and 4) foreigners from European, Asian and American countries. Along with the sound database, an expert linguistic system is being created, which allows analysis and investigation of particular speech samples, types and corresponding parameters. An important role here plays the system of speech transcription, which should adequately reflect the actual variability.

AB - The study of pronunciation variabilityis an important phonetic task, which has many applications (in speech synthesis and recognition systems, language teaching, forensic phonetics, etc.), and well-known variability of Russian speech deserves special investigations. Generally, one may distinguish geographical, functional, social and national variabilityof pronunciation. At the same time anyty pe of pronunciation is characterised byits own internal variability. It concerns as well the standard speech. Database of contemporary Russian speech variabilityis currentlybeing created in the Laboratory of the Experimental Phonetics of St. Petersburg Universityin order to investigate pronunciation variance of different speech types. The database of sound material is formed by recordings of the PhoneticallyRepresentati ve Texts pronounced by1) standard Russian speakers, 2) regional Russian speakers, 3) speakers from the former USSR republics to which Russian is a second language, and 4) foreigners from European, Asian and American countries. Along with the sound database, an expert linguistic system is being created, which allows analysis and investigation of particular speech samples, types and corresponding parameters. An important role here plays the system of speech transcription, which should adequately reflect the actual variability.

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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-45323-7_41

DO - 10.1007/3-540-45323-7_41

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:84947549686

SN - 3540410422

SN - 9783540410423

T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

SP - 243

EP - 247

BT - Text, Speech and Dialogue - 3rd International Workshop, TSD 2000, Proceedings

A2 - Sojka, Petr

A2 - Kopecek, Ivan

A2 - Pala, Karel

PB - Springer Nature

T2 - 3rd International Workshop on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2000

Y2 - 13 September 2000 through 16 September 2000

ER -