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Analysing Irish Prosody: a dual linguistic/quantitative approach
NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE; GOBL, CHRISTER (2004)A project of Irish prosody is described which attempts to provide not only the basis for a linguistic description of the prosody of Irish dialects, but also the prerequisite quantitative characterization that is needed ... -
Analysis of intonation contours in portrayed emotions using the Fujisaki model
NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE (2007)This paper presents an analysis of f0 contours in portrayed emotions, using the Fujisaki model. The focus is on quantifying the f0 differences among the six emotions investigated (surprised, bored, neutral, angry, happy, ... -
Creating an ongoing research capability in speech technology for two minority languages: experiences from the WISPR project
NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE (2005)This paper reports on efforts to set up a research capability in speech technology for two minority languages (Welsh and Irish), where the focus is on ensuring that this capability will outlive the project that provided ... -
Cross-Dialect Irish Prosody: Linguistic Constraints on Fujisaki Modelling
GOBL, CHRISTER; NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE (2008)We describe here our approach to quantifying cross-dialect differences in Irish Gaelic, using the Fujisaki model. The basic principle is that the way in which the modelling is carried out respects a parallel linguistic ... -
Cross-speaker variation in voice source correlates of focus and deaccentuation
YANUSHEVSKAYA, IRENA; GOBL, CHRISTER; NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE (2017)This paper describes cross-speaker variation in the voice source correlates of focal accentuation and deaccentuation. A set of utterances with varied narrow focus placement as well as broad focus and deaccented renditions ... -
Developing a Spoken Corpus and a Synthesiser for Irish (Gaelic)
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Dialect alignment signatures
NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE (ISCA, 2006)This paper considers the hypothesis that dialects may have characteristic patterns in the alignment of the melodic contour with the segmental or syllabic tiers. Peak alignment was measured in initial prenuclear accented ... -
GlóRí - the Glottal Research Instrument
NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE; GOBL, CHRISTER; Dalton, John; Kane, John; Yanushevskaya, Irena (2014)This papers presents GlóRí - the glottal research instrument. GlóRí is a speech analysis interface which offers a flexibility and multiplicity of approaches to voice analysis. The system allows for fully automatic ... -
The interaction of long-term voice quality with the realisation of focus
YANUSHEVSKAYA, IRENA; GOBL, CHRISTER; NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE (2016)Voice quality shifts have been shown to be associated with the realisation of accent, focus and deaccentuation. Mostly, accented and focally accented syllables are reported to exhibit a tenser mode of phonation than the ... -
Mapping Voice to Affect: Japanese listeners
GOBL, CHRISTER; YANUSHEVSKAYA, IRENA; NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE (ISCA, 2006)This paper reports the results of perception tests administered to speakers of Japanese as part of a cross-language investigation of how voice quality and f0 combine in the signalling of affect. Three types of synthesised ... -
Modelling intonation in three Irish dialects
NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE (2003)This paper provides a preliminary account of features of the intonation structure of three Irish dialects, Donegal (Ulster Irish), Mayo, and Aran Islands, using the IViE system [1, 2]. The sentence types examined were ... -
Nuclear accents in four Irish (Gaelic) dialects
NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE (2007)In this paper the distribution of nuclear accents in declaratives of four major dialects of Irish is described. The findings show considerable variation, particular between northern and southern dialects. Speakers of ... -
Peak timing in two dialects of Connaught Irish
NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE (2005)A comparison of the peak location in nuclear and initial prenuclear accents was carried out for two closely related dialects of Connaught Irish: Cois Fharraige and Inis Oirr. This was done across conditions where the number ... -
The relationship between voice source parameters and the Maxima Dispersion Quotient (MDQ)
YANUSHEVSKAYA, IRENA; GOBL, CHRISTER; NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE (2015) -
Speech technology as documentation for endangered language preservation: the case of Irish
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Speech Technology for Minority Languages: the Case of Irish (Gaelic)
NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE; GOBL, CHRISTER (2006)Abstract?Unit selection is a data-driven approach to speech synthesis that concatenates pieces of recorded speech from a large database in order to create novel sentences. Many corpora are available in the English ... -
Tonal alignment in three varieties of Hiberno-English
NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE (ISCA, 2009)This pilot study investigates the tonal alignment of pre-nuclear (PN) and nuclear (N) accents in three Hiberno-English (HE) regional varieties: Dublin, Drogheda, and Donegal English. The peak alignment is investigated ... -
Voice quality and f0 cues for affect expression: implications for synthesis
NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE; GOBL, CHRISTER; YANUSHEVSKAYA, IRENA (2005)Synthesised stimuli were used to investigate how two notionally separable dimensions of tone-of-voice ? voice quality and fundamental frequency ? are involved in the expression of affect. Listeners were presented with ... -
Voice quality and f0 in prosody: towards a holistic account
NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE; GOBL, CHRISTER (2004)This paper presents a discussion of the role of voice quality in prosody. Illustrations from past production and perception data by the authors indicate that source parameters other than f0 are an inherent part of ... -
Voice quality and loudness in affect perception
NI CHASAIDE, AILBHE; GOBL, CHRISTER; YANUSHEVSKAYA, IRENA (2008)Different voice qualities tend to vary in terms of their intrinsic loudness. Perceptual experiments have shown that voice quality variation can be strongly associated with the affective colouring of an utterance. The ...