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306 acl-2011-Towards Style Transformation from Written-Style to Audio-Style


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Author: Amjad Abu-Jbara ; Barbara Rosario ; Kent Lyons

Abstract: In this paper, we address the problem of optimizing the style of textual content to make it more suitable to being listened to by a user as opposed to being read. We study the differences between the written style and the audio style by consulting the linguistics andjour- nalism literatures. Guided by this study, we suggest a number of linguistic features to distinguish between the two styles. We show the correctness of our features and the impact of style transformation on the user experience through statistical analysis, a style classification task, and a user study.


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