TY - T1 - Prosodic Prominence and Boundaries in Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Synthesis SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/318782 T3 - Speech prosody A1 - Suni, Antti; Kakouros, Sofoklis; Vainio, Martti; Å imko, Juraj A2 - PB - ISCA Y1 - 2020 LA - eng AB - Recent advances in deep learning methods have elevated synthetic speech quality to human level, and the field is now moving towards addressing prosodic variation in synthetic speech.Despite successes in this effort, the state-of-the-art systems fall short of faithfully reproducing local prosodic events that give rise to, e.g., word-level emphasis and phrasal structure. This type of prosodic variation often reflects long-distance semantic relationships that are not accessible for end-to-end syste... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 6161 Phonetics; 6121 Languages N1 - PP - ER -