Modeling tone and intonation in Mandarin and English as a process of target approximation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 405-424

  Prom On, Santitham ^a   Xu, Yi ^b   Thipakorn, Bundit ^a  

^a KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SYNTHESIS; EFFECTIVE TOOL; F0 CONTOURS; HUMAN IDENTIFICATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; NATURAL SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION;

BIOMECHANICS; FUNCTIONS; LINGUISTICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

TARGETS;

BIOPHYSICS; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPEECH; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 58649121677     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3037222     Document Type: Article

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