A statistics-based pitch contour model for Mandarin speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 908-925

  Chen, Sin Horng ^a   Lai, Wen Hsing ^a,b   Wang, Yih Ru ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNGHWA TELECOM CO LTD   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS;

EXPECTATION-MINIMIZATION (EM) ALGORITHMS; PHRASE BOUNDARIES; PROSODIC STATE; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS (RMSES);

SPEECH;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; ERROR; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHONETICS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 13544257213     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1841572     Document Type: Article

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