Quantitative and structural modeling of voice fundamental frequency contours of speech in Mandarin

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 989-1008

  Ni, Jinfu ^a   Hirose, Keikichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analysis by synthesis; F0 contours; Intonation; Prosody modeling; Resonance principle; Tonal languages; Tone; Tone modulation

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEMIOTICS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ANALYSIS-BY-SYNTHESIS; F0 CONTOURS; INTONATION; PROSODY MODELING; RESONANCE PRINCIPLE; SYLLABIC TONES; TONAL LANGUAGES; TONE MODULATION; VOICE FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY CONTOURS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745367417     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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