Applying data mining techniques to corpus based prosodic modeling

Speech Communication

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 213-229

  Escudero Mancebo, David ^a   Cardeñoso Payo, Valentín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data mining; F0 Contours; Intonation modeling; Prosody; Text to speech

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

INTONATION MODELING; INTONATION PATTERNS; PROSODIC FEATURES; VISUAL REPRESENTATION;

DATA MINING;

EID: 33947159552     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2007.01.008     Document Type: Article

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