{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.02074688796680498, 'fraction_numerical': 0.001037344398340249, 'mean_word_length': 5.225806451612903, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
Aspects of a Romanian syntactic-prosodic interface for an intonation prediction module

This paper presents an improved version of a previously developed prosodic prediction module (PPM), used by a Romanian TtS (Text-to-Speech) system in intonation synthesis. The present PPM implements a method for setting prosodic indications, useful both in generating prosodic hierarchies and in melodic contour selection at each group level. The prosodic indications are derived from the lexical and morpho-syntactic analysis of the input text. The text analysis aims to generate a text structure by using only trees with one head and one or two branches, which describe local or global relations between words and/or group of words. This text hierarchy can be easily translated by the PPM into a prosodic hierarchy. Then, the elements of the relations are connected to different functional F0 patterns by selecting appropriate melodic contours, based on prosodicindications.