MODELING THE MICROPROSODY OF PITCH AND LOUDNESS FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS WITH NEURAL NETWORKS

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Vainio, Martti ^a   Altosaar, Toomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

FEED FORWARD; FINNISH; ISOLATED WORDS; MICRO LEVEL; NEURAL-NETWORKS; PROSODIC PARAMETER;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 4544268744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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