What is Prosody?

Rhythm, stress and intonation in speech.

Prosody is everything about how something is said rather than what is said — pacing, emphasis, rising and falling pitch. It carries meaning that words alone do not, and flat prosody is what makes otherwise accurate synthetic speech sound mechanical.

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