Prosody modelling of spanish for expressive speech synthesis

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 821-824

  Iriondo, Ignasi ^a   Socoró, Joan Claudi ^a   Alías, Francesc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; CASE BASED REASONING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY CONTOUR; PROSODIC FEATURES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34547530350     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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