MODELING JAPANESE BOUNDARY PITCH MOVEMENTS FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS

3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 31-36

  Venditti, Jennifer J ^a,b   Maeda, Kazuaki ^a,c   van Santen, Jan P H ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; LINGUISTICS;

F0 CONTOURS; OBSERVED DATA; PARALINGUISTIC; QUANTITATIVE MODELS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 44649163715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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