Expressive speech synthesis using American English ToBI: Questions and contrastive emphasis

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 694-699

  Pitrelli, John F ^a   Eide, Ellen M ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

AMERICAN ENGLISH; BASELINE SYSTEMS; DECISION TREE MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LARGE CORPORA; MEAN OPINION SCORES; SEGMENT DURATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44849128406     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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