Estimation of intonation variation with constrained tone transformations

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1397-1400

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

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b KDDI R AND D LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CORRELATION METHODS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC CORRELATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; LEXICAL TONE STRUCTURES; LEXICAL TONES; TONE TRANSFORMATIONS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33745222317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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