Rules for the generation of ToBI-based American English intonation

Speech Communication

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 83-108

  Jilka, Matthias ^a   Möhler, Gregor ^a   Dogil, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; TONE SEQUENCE MODEL;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0345580812     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00008-4     Document Type: Article

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