SFC: A trainable prosodic model

Speech Communication

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 348-364

  Bailly, Gérard ^a   Holm, Bleicke ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic generation of prosody; Intonation; Prosodic modelling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; DECODING; LINGUISTICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF PROSODY; INTONATION; METALINGUISTIC FUNCTIONS; PROSODIC MODELING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 21844440585     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.04.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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