ProSynth: An integrated prosodic approach to device-independent, natural-sounding speech synthesis

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 177-210

  Ogden, Richard ^a   Hawkins, Sarah ^b   House, Jill ^c   Huckvale, Mark ^c   Local, John ^a   Carter, Paul ^a   Dankovičová, Jana ^c   Heid, Sebastian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

INTEGRATED PROSODIC APPROACH; NATURAL SOUNDING SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0034224125     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/csla.2000.0141     Document Type: Article

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