Quantitative Analysis and Formulation of Tone Concatenation in Chinese F0 Contours

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 195-198

  Ni, Jin Fu ^a   Wang, Ren Hua ^a   Hirose, Keikichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

F0 CONTOURS; HIGH QUALITY; MODELING PARAMETERS; PROSODICS; SET OF RULES; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0005688437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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