Analysis and synthesis of fundamental frequency contours of Standard Chinese using the command-response model

Speech Communication

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 59-70

  Fujisaki, Hiroya ^a   Wang, Changfu ^b   Ohno, Sumio ^c   Gu, Wentao ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Command response model; Constraint; Fundamental frequency contour; Perceptual test; Standard Chinese; Tone

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COMMAND-RESPONSE MODEL; CONSTRAINT; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY CONTOUR; PERCEPTUAL TEST; STANDARD CHINESE; TONE;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 24144475487     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.06.009     Document Type: Article

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