Automatic estimation of accentual attribute values of words for accent sandhi rules of Japanese text-to-speech conversion

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 550-557

  Minematsu, Nobuaki ^a   Kita, Ryuji ^a   Hirose, Keikichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accentual attributes; Listening experiment; Prosody; Text to speech conversion; Word accent sandhi

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS;

SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0038042799     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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