Automatic pitch accent prediction for text-to-speech synthesis

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 2085-2088

  Read, Ian ^a   Cox, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

ERROR RATES; FEATURE SETS; GRAM MODELS; PITCH ACCENTS; SYNTACTIC PARSE; THREE DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149085834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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