Dear Nigel
Congratulations on pulling together a much more satisfactory reflection of
the speech community's views in this second pass on the document. I have
one suggestion for change.
re speech synthesis and generation, paragraph 1(p.9, para 2):
Normally, intonation is considered to be part of the more general term,
prosody. Ignoring this, however, the paradigm shift you refer to will
probably involve increasingly less separation of "prosody and intonation"
from "segments" than is currently the case. (Combining the two strands is
part of the paradigm shift that we in the ProSynth group aim to contribute
to.) Thus, it is true that work is desperately needed on prosody, but it
is inadvisable to separate this in practice from work on segmental
quality.
best wishes
Sarah
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