PROSODY PREDICTION FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS USING TRANSFORMATIONAL RULE-BASED LEARNING

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Fordyce, Cameron S ^a   Ostendorf, Mari ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; DECISION TREES; FORECASTING;

NEWS CORPORA; PHRASE PREDICTION; PHRASE STRUCTURE; PITCH ACCENTS; PREDICTION-BASED; PROSODICS; PROSODY PREDICTIONS; RULE-BASED LEARNING; SIMPLE++; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0009653524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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