Prosody generation for German CTS/TTS systems (from theoretical intonation patterns to practical realisation)

Speech Communication

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 37-60

  Olaszy, Gábor ^a,b   Nemeth, Géza ^b  

^a Research Institute for Linguistics   (Hungary)

^b TU Institute of Building Constructions and Sanitary Engineering Budapest   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Dialog systems with synthetic speech output; Prosody generation; Speech synthesis; Tone group prediction

Indexed keywords

MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WORD PROCESSING;

SPEECH GENERATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0031074261     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(96)00071-4     Document Type: Article

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