Corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours based on a generation process model

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 2255-2258

  Hirose, Keikichi ^a   Eto, Masaya ^a   Minematsu, Nobuaki ^a   Sakurai, Atsuhiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Texas Instruments Japan Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); LINEAR REGRESSION; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CONTOUR GENERATION; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY CONTOUR; LIMITED TRAINING DATA; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; MORPHOLOGICAL INFORMATION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARAMETRIC MODELING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 21844459140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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