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Research and development in speech synthesis and recognition calls for a phonological intonation annotation scheme for the particular language. Inspired by the successful ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) for American English [1] and GToBI [2] for German, this paper introduces a new intonation annotation scheme for Slovak, Sk-ToBI. In spite of the fact that Slovak prosodic rules differ from those of English or German, we decided to follow the main principals of ToBI and to define a special Slovak version of Tones and Break Indices annotation scheme. The speech material belonging to different styles, which was used for the preliminary study of accents in Slovak is shortly described and the conventions of Sk-ToBI annotation are presented.
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Rusko, M., Sabo, R., Dzúr, M. (2007). Sk-ToBI Scheme for Phonological Prosody Annotation in Slovak. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4629. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_44
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