Is Prosody Lost in Translation? Fine-Grained Cross-Lingual Prosody Similarity Across Languages

This paper investigates whether prosodic features—pitch, energy, and timing—are preserved when speech is translated between languages. Using multilingual dubbing data for English‑German, English‑Spanish, and English‑French pairs, the authors conduct a fine‑grained cross‑lingual analysis to quantify similarities and differences in prosody. The study identifies inherent cross‑lingual correlations in prosodic structure and explores how linguistic and alignment factors influence these patterns.

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