Additive modeling of english F0 contour for speech synthesis

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn I, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Sakai, Shinsuke ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERRORS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INTONATIONAL PHRASE COMPONENT; LEAST-SQUARES ERRORS; LEXICAL STRESS TYPES; STATISTICAL LEARNING TECHNIQUE;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33646821329     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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