Preface. - Contributors. - I The Prosody of Spontaneous Speech. - 1 Introduction to Part I. - 2 A Typology of Spontaneous Speech. - 3 Prosody Models and Spontaneous Speech. - 4 On the Analysis of Prosody in Interaction. - II Prosody and the Structure of the Message. - 5 Introduction to Part II. - 6 Integrating Prosodic and Discourse Modelling. - 7 Prosodic Features of Utterances in Task-Oriented Dialogues. - 8 Variation of Accent Prominence within the Phrase: Models and Spontaneous Speech Data. - 9 Predicting the Intonation of Discourse Segments from Examples in Dialogue Speech. - 10 Effects of Focus on Duration and Vowel Formant Frequency in Japanese. - III Prosody in Speech Synthesis. - 11 Introduction to Part III. - 12 Synthesizing Spontaneous Speech. - 13 Modelling Prosody in Spontaneous Speech. - 14 Comparison of F0 Control Rules Derived from Multiple Speech Databases. - 15 Segmental Duration and Speech Timing. - 16 Measuring temporal compensation effect in speech perception. - 17 Prediction of Major Phrase Boundary Location and Pause Insertion Using a Stochastic Context-free Grammar. - IV Prosody in Speech Recognition. - 18 Introduction to Part IV. - 19 A Multi-level Model for Recognition of Intonation Labels. - 20 Training Prosody-Syntax Recognition Models without Prosodic Labels. - 21 Disambiguating Recognition Results by Prosodic Features. - 22 Accent Phrase Segmentation by F0 Clustering Using Superpositional Modelling. - 23 Prosodic Modules for Speech Recognition and Understanding in VERBMOBIL. - Author Index. - Citation Index. Language: English