Towards a prominence-based synthesis system

Speech Communication

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 61-72

  Portele, Thomas ^a   Heuft, Barbara ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Prominence; Prosody; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; LINGUISTICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEMS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0031071430     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(96)00072-6     Document Type: Article

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