Statistical prosodic modeling: from corpus design to parameter estimation

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 52-66

  Bellegarda, Jerome R ^a   Silverman, Kirn E A ^a   Lenzo, Kevin ^a   Anderson, Victoria ^b  

^a APPLE INC   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INTONATION MODELING; PROSODIC REPRESENTATION; PROSODY GENERATION; STATISTICAL PROSODIC MODELING; TEXT TO SPEECH SYSTEMS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0035121063     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.890071     Document Type: Article

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