MICRO-PROSODIC CONTROL IN CANTONESE TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1855-1858

  Lee, Tan ^a   Meng, Helen M ^a   Lau, W ^a   Lo, W K ^a   Ching, P C ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cantonese; micro prosody; TTS

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CANTONESE; CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; MICRO-PROSODY; PROSODIC CONTROL; PROSODIC FEATURES; PROSODIC MODIFICATIONS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; TD-PSOLA; TTS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0000272075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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