Analysis and modeling of F0 contours for cantonese text-to-speech

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 169-189

  Li, Yujia ^a   Lee, Tan ^a   Qian, Yao ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese dialects; Fundamental frequency; Prosody; Text to speech; Tones

Indexed keywords

CHINESE DIALECTS; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; EXPERIMENTATION; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; HUMAN FACTORS; PATTERN ANALYSIS; PROSODY; TEXT-TO-SPEECH; TONES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CURVE FITTING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 12344322621     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1037811.1037813     Document Type: Article

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