Nearly perfect detection of continuous F 0 contour and frame classification for TTS synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 100-103

  Ewender, Thomas ^a   Hoffmann, Sarah ^a   Pfister, Beat ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Continuous F 0 contour estimation; Globally optimized F 0 contour; Irregular glottalization; Vocal fry; Voiced unvoiced classification

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR ESTIMATION; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; FUNDAMENTAL WAVE; GLOTTALIZATION; HIGH QUALITY; LOCAL PROPERTY; PROSODIC MODIFICATIONS; SPEECH FEATURES; SPEECH SEGMENTS; SPEECH SIGNALS;

ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450248582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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