Synthesis of prosody using multi-level unit sequences

Speech Communication

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 365-375

  Van Santen, Jan ^a   Kain, Alexander ^a   Klabbers, Esther ^a   Mishra, Taniya ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING;

PROSODIC CONTROURS; PROSODY; SEGMENTAL PERTURBATION; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS (TTS);

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 21844466234     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.01.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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