Data-driven generation of F0 contours using a superpositional model

Speech Communication

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 535-549

  Sakurai, A ^a   Hirose, K ^b   Minematsu, N ^b  

^a Texas Instruments Japan Ltd   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

F0 contour generation; Superpositional model; Text to speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY CONTOURS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0037513422     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(02)00177-2     Document Type: Article

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