Official Code

https://github.com/DigitalPhonetics/IMS-Toucan

Interactive Demo

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What’s this?

We showcase a few samples of German poetry with different pronunciations. They differ in their realization of enjambments. The realizations of the enjambments can be edited in a fine-grained way using our human-in-the-loop text-to-speech. Being able to edit specific realizations of phenomena without affecting anything else is an invaluable tool for literary studies.

What’s an enjambment? An enjambment occurs when the syntactic construction continues across the line break. (click here to learn more)

Audio Samples

• »Quellen hattest du ihm, hattest dem
  Flüchtigen
  Kühle Schatten
  geschenkt«
  
  

  Human Reference A with unemphasized enjambment
  Human Reference B with emphasized enjambment
  Synthesized Reference A with unemphasized enjambment
  Synthesized Reference B with emphasized enjambment
  Realization A edited to have B's emphasized enjambment
  Realization B edited to have A's unemphasized enjambent

• »Und die Gestade
  sahen
  All
  ihm nach«
  
  

  Human Reference A with unemphasized enjambment
  Human Reference B with emphasized enjambment
  Synthesized Reference A with unemphasized enjambment
  Synthesized Reference B with emphasized enjambment
  Realization A edited to have B's emphasized enjambment
  Realization B edited to have A's unemphasized enjambent

• »Lass endlich Vater! offenen Aug's mich
  dir
  Begegnen
  !«
  
  

  Human Reference A with unemphasized enjambment
  Human Reference B with emphasized enjambment
  Synthesized Reference A with unemphasized enjambment
  Synthesized Reference B with emphasized enjambment
  Realization A edited to have B's emphasized enjambment
  Realization B edited to have A's unemphasized enjambent

• »Hast denn du nicht zuerst den
  Geist
  Mit deinem Strahl
  aus mir geweckt?«
  
  

  Human Reference A with unemphasized enjambment
  Human Reference B with emphasized enjambment
  Synthesized Reference A with unemphasized enjambment
  Synthesized Reference B with emphasized enjambment
  Realization A edited to have B's emphasized enjambment
  Realization B edited to have A's unemphasized enjambent

All samples shown with a blueish background are synthetic. The voice used for generating the samples is based on Hanns Zischler’s recordings which come with the following copyright notice:

Florian Michel (Ton) und Hanns Zischler (Sprecher) im Auftrag des Deutschen Literaturarchivs Marbach (2020)