Polyglot speech prosody control

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 488-491

  Romsdorfer, Harald ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ensemble models; Mixed lingual; Neural networks; Polyglot; Prosody control; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE MODELS; MIXED-LINGUAL; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; PROSODY MODEL; SPEECH PROSODY; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

LINGUISTICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNTACTICS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450277367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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