GENERATING PITCH ACCENT DISTRIBUTIONS THAT SHOW INDIVIDUAL AND STYLISTIC DIFFERENCES

3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 121-126

  Cahn, Janet E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COUNTS-AS; MAIN PARAMETERS; MODELS OF ATTENTION; PITCH ACCENTS; SIMULATION PARAMETERS; STYLISTIC SIMILARITY; TEXT-BASED INFORMATION; WORKING MEMORY;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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