@inproceedings{bba44739f16349399f203be550ecae93,
title = "Improvement of accent sandhi rules based on Japanese accent dictionaries",
abstract = "In order to synthesize more natural speech with Japanese text-to-speech systems, we improve accent sandhi rules. The conventional Japanese accent sandhi rules lack rules related to numerals and counter words in conventional rules. In this paper, we comprehensively improved the accent sandhi rules as well as those related to numerals and counter words, concerning accent rules related to word combinations described in the Japanese accent dictionaries. Then, accent estimation experiments were conducted using the conventional and improved rules to evaluate the accuracy of the estimation by the two types of rules. The effectiveness and problems of the accent sandhi rules themselves and improved rules were discussed by analyzing the experimental results.",
keywords = "Accent dictionary, Accent sandhi rules, Counter words, Numerals, Text-to-speech",
author = "Hiroto Aoyama and Takashi Nose and Yuya Chiba and Akinori Ito",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-03748-2_17",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030037475",
series = "Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "140--148",
editor = "Jain, {Lakhmi C.} and Jain, {Lakhmi C.} and Pei-Wei Tsai and Akinori Ito and Jeng-Shyang Pan and Jain, {Lakhmi C.}",
booktitle = "Recent Advances in Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing - Proceeding of the Fourteenth International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing",
address = "Germany",
note = "14th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIH-MSP 2018 ; Conference date: 26-11-2018 Through 28-11-2018",
}