Fluent speech prosody: Framework and modeling

Speech Communication

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 284-309

  Tseng, Chiu Yu ^a   Pin, Shao Huang ^a   Lee, Yehlin ^a   Wang, Hsin Min ^b   Chen, Yong Cheng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Boundary breaks; Constraints; Cross phrase; Global F 0 templates; Intensity distribution; Look ahead; Multi phrase; PG; Prosodic hierarchy; Prosodic phrase grouping; Speech planning; Syllable duration patterns; Templates; Temporal allocations; Top down

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CONSTRAINTS; CROSS-PHRASE; LOOK-AHEAD; MULTI-PHRASE; PG; PROSODIC HIERARCHY; PROSODIC PHRASE GROUPING; SPEECH PLANNING; TEMPLATES; TOP-DOWN;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 21844474040     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.03.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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