Abstract: Controlling text-to-speech (TTS) systems to synthesize speech with the prosodic characteristics expected by users has attracted much attention. To achieve controllability, current studies ...

Abstract: This paper investigates leveraging large-scale speech data to enhance prosodic modeling in speech synthesis, and introduces a model named SP2MC which achieves self-supervised prosody ...

A new study reveals that Heschl’s gyrus, once thought to only process sound, actually plays a crucial role in interpreting speech melody, or prosody.

Researchers discover that Heschl’s gyrus plays a major role in interpreting speech qualities like pitch, tone, and emphasis.

The auditory system is the sensory system for hearing. It consists of the outer ear (the auricle and auditory canal), the middle ear (the tympanic membrane, malleus, incus and stapes), the inner ...

"The periods may communicate emphasis or may mimic a prosodic feature such as a dramatic pause after each word, being heard as staccato speech in readers' inner speech," reads the study published ...

Neural speech tracking in children with cochlear implants shows that an early phase of hearing loss affects sensory and higher-level processing differently. Tracking is present at short timescales ...

The available evidence base indicates that multiple oppositions is a promising intervention with probable efficacy for creating system-wide change that increases speech intelligibility in children ...