Prosodically Transcribed Data and Transcription Tools for Linguistics Research; June 25-30, 1993; Columbus, Ohio

语调和韵律提供了正字法转录中无法获得的信息，但对于理解话语的预期意义和生成自然发音的合成语音至关重要。因此，充分理解这些现象是语言学研究和技术进步的先决条件。这种理解需要访问大型标记语音语料库。在过去的一年里，一群不同的研究人员，从电气工程师和计算机科学家到心理学家和语言学家，已经合作设计和测试了一个拟议的标准韵律转录系统，用于注释大型多站点共享语料库。这项合作的下一步是举办一个研讨会，为新的转录员开发培训材料，并规划转录自动化方面的工具。(2)调查语音和自然语言研究界对韵律注释语音数据库的全面需求，并协调现有数据库的注释计划和根据这些需求设计新数据库的计划；(3)将标准扩展到其他英语方言。会议的有形产品将是一个在线培训课程和一卷根据会议报告和讨论编辑的会议说明。

ABSTRACT Intonation and prosody provide information unavailable in orthographic transcriptions, yet crucial to understanding the intended meaning of an utterance and to generating natural- sounding synthetic speech. A full understanding of these phenomena is thus prerequisite to advance in many areas of linguistic research and technology. This understanding requires access to large labeled speech corpora. Over the last year, a diverse group of researchers, from Electrical Engineers and Computer Scientists to Psychologists and Linguists, have cooperated in devising and testing a proposed standard prosodic transcription system for the purpose of annotating large multi- site shared corpora. The next step in this cooperative effort is to hold a workshop (1) to develop training materials for new transcribers and to plan tools for automating aspects of the transcription, (2) to investigate the full range of needs for prosodically annotated speech databases in the speech and natural language research communities while coordinating plans for annotating existing data bases and for designing new ones in view of these needs, and (3) to extend the standard to other dialects of English. The tangible products of the conference will be an online training course and a volume of Conference Notes edited from the reports and discussion at the conference.