Analysis of Lithuanian speech sound lengths and pitch for prosody generation

Abstract

Sound duration and pitch are analyzed, based on three speakers continuous speech corpus. Varying speech rate from slow to medium (normal), and from normal to fast, length of both vowels and consonants varied significantly, but sounds in root and prefix varied less than sounds of the suffix and the ending. Pitch was investigated at the level of syllables. Rising pitch was prevailing in the stressed syllables, while falling was prevalent in the syllable following the stressed one.[...]