Identification of contrast and its emphatic realization in HMM based speech synthesis

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 520-523

  Badino, Leonardo ^a   Andersson, J Sebastian ^a   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a   Clark, Robert A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast; HMM speech synthesis; Prosody

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST; HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; NOVEL METHODS; PERCEPTUAL TEST; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; TEXT TO SPEECH;

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450187025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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