Constrained tone transformation technique for separation and combination of Mandarin tone and intonation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1764-1782

  Ni, Jinfu ^a   Kawai, Hisashi ^a,c   Hirose, Keikichi ^b  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KDDI R AND D LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; TONAL LANGUAGES; TONE TRANSFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VOICE;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33644647489     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2165071     Document Type: Article

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