Work Modality and Fee

I don’t charge by the hour. I deliver structured, well-defined insights designed to support your team’s decision-making process.

🔹 Strategic Module Analysis – USD $1500

You receive a 2–3 page report with three guiding examples you can extrapolate across your entire corpus. Each example includes a visualized prosodic structure, with measurements in:

  • Pitch (in semitones)

  • Intensity (in decibels)

  • Duration (in seconds)

And the typified illustrations of the prosodic pattern for each speech function analyzed.

What I need from you:

  • Your three most problematic utterance types

  • Seven audio examples of each type

  • A transcription for each (standard spelling is enough; phonological transcription is optional but welcome)

🔹 Corpus Diagnosis + Strategic Module – USD $5000

If your TTS system isn’t sounding the way you want and you’re unsure whether the problem lies in how your data is classified, I can help you review and rethink your approach.

You receive:

  • My advice on corpus classification, based on the communicative functions observed in your data

  • The full Strategic Module Analysis (as described above), with three fully analyzed and visualized examples

🔹 Full Prosodic Mapping – USD $12,000

If you’d like me to conduct a complete prosodic analysis of your data—not just a sample—I can provide you with detailed typified prosodic structures for all relevant utterance types, including pitch, intensity, and duration ranges.

What I need from you:

  • A complete set of transcribed and audio examples

  • An explanation of the classification criteria you’ve used in your corpus so far

Payment Terms

For the Strategic Module Analysis (USD $1500), full payment is required upfront before the project begins.

For the Corpus Diagnosis + Strategic Module (USD $5000) and the Full Prosodic Mapping (USD $12,000), payment is split into two phases:

  • 50% upfront, prior to project initiation

  • 50% before final delivery of the report and visualizations

Payments can be made via:

  • PayPal

  • Direct bank transfer within Europe (IBAN)

  • Wise (for international transfers)

If you require an invoice for your records, please let me know at the time of booking.

Please note:

This is a high-level analysis intended to inform and support your internal work on TTS or voice training.
My role is to provide expert guidance that your team can apply independently.
I do not implement, program, or follow up on technical integration.

As part of the deliverable, I include acoustic visualizations based on your own corpus. These graphs display the prosodic structure of a selected communicative function, measured in three key dimensions: pitch, intensity, and duration.
Alongside the graphs, I provide a clear and detailed explanation of how prosody is functioning in the example and what aspects should be captured or emulated in TTS output.
I also offer a classification suggestion for labeling utterances by speech act type, aligned with the observed prosodic behavior.

I do not need any programming code in any language.

You don’t need to worry about technical jargon.

My approach is meant to be accessible and clear, and in return, I ask that you keep things straightforward as well. You’ll get expert guidance grounded in real linguistic insight.