Karin Stromswold

Harnessing Whisper for Prosodic Stress Analysis

Prosody affects how people produce and understand language, yet studies of how it does so have been hindered by the lack of efficient tools for analyzing prosodic stress. We fine-tune OpenAI Whisper large-v2, a state-of-the-art speech recognition model, to recognize phrasal, lexical, and contrastive…