Intonation description language for the prosodic control in a TtS system for Romanian

Abstract

This paper presents an intonation description language for the prosodic control implementation into a TtS system for Romanian. The prosodic description implies the decomposing of the F0 contours into of functional elementary melodic contours sequences. In our view the accentual units are considered as elementary melodic contours because they contain elementary tonal contrasts to which labels with communicative signification may be assigned. After the label set presentation from the third section, in the fourth section we exemplify how our description language could be used to annotate and generate the F0 contours.