Exploring Prosody: Perception and Production Exercises
Dive into the world of prosody with perception and production exercises focusing on speech elements like pitch, loudness, timing, duration, and more. Enhance your understanding through detailed descriptions of differences in speech patterns and vocal characteristics, as well as practical exercises to vary pitch, intensity, rate, articulation, and voicing.
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Prosody Video 8: Exercises Nigel G. Ward, University of Texas at El Paso Gina-Anne Levow, University of Washington Tutorial presented at ACL 2021
Perception Exercise Describe the differences good job E A B F C D
Perception Exercise Describe the differences good job A fairly flat pitch modal voice
Perception Exercise Describe the differences good job longer louder higher in pitch wider pitch range pitch downstep more harmonic B
Perception Exercise Describe the differences good job longer vibrato C
Perception Exercise Describe the differences good job creaky shorter final pitch upturn D
Perception Exercise Describe the differences good job E long second syllable very creaky end reduced
Perception Exercise Describe the differences good job F
Perception Exercise Describe the differences good job Retrospective Ward and Escalante-Ruiz, 2009
Prosody is The musical aspects of speech Pitch, loudness, timing, duration, and rate and things that pattern with them: Voicing present (binary) or periodicity Phonation type: creaky / breathy / falsetto Reduction / enunciation Nasalization Thousands of derived features
Production Exercise Say Why don t you come along? varying the: a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) Pitch height: high / low Pitch range: monotone / expressive Pitch slope: rising / falling Intensity: loud / quiet Rate: slow / fast Articulation: enunciated / reduced Voicing: modal / creaky / breathy / falsetto / harmonic Nasal / purely oral Time permitting, now apply each to just one of the words.
Integrated Exercise Repeat or shadow 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Contents Introduction 4: Pitch Production Production, Perception 5: Pitch and F0 Classic Ling. Prosody 6. Loudness, Timing, etc. Technology 1 7: Phonation Types Para. & Prag. Functions 8: Exercises Speech Synthesis and Dialog 9: Psychoacoustics Perspectives
Contents Introduction 4: Pitch Production Production, Perception 5: Pitch and F0 Classic Ling. Prosody 6. Loudness, Timing, etc. Technology 1 7: Phonation Types Para. & Prag. Functions 8: Exercises Speech Synthesis and Dialog 9: Psychoacoustics Perspectives
Perception Warm-up Exercise ii naa What did you perceive? I hear Pitch downstep Lengthening Nasalization Creaky voice
