20. The computing device of claim 18 , wherein the contextual and lexical information includes an average pitch for a predetermined duration before and after the identified word.
18. A computing device to facilitate a user of the computing system in automatically emphasizing spoken words, the computing device comprising: one or more processors; and a memory, coupled with the one or more processors, having a plurality of executable instructions embodied thereon, which, when executed by the one or more processors cause the computing device to: identify, within an audio recording of spoken content, a word to be audibly emphasized, with respect to other words included in the spoken content; extract contextual and lexical information from the audio recording relating to the identified word; determine predicted pitch parameters based on the contextual and lexical information and a predictive model that correlates the contextual and lexical information with the predicted pitch parameters, the predicted pitch parameters including a predicted starting pitch level, a predicted peak pitch level, and a predicted ending pitch level for the identified word; and apply the predicted pitch parameters to modify the identified word by calculating a pitch contour based on the predicted starting pitch level, the predicted peak pitch level, and the predicted ending pitch level, such that when modified, the identified word is audibly emphasized with respect to the other words included in the spoken content.