Effects of prosodic factors on spectral balance: Analysis and synthesis

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Miao, Qi ^a   Niu, Xiaochuan ^a   Klabbers, Esther ^a   Van Santen, Jan ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS; BALANCE ANALYSIS; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY RANGES; NATURAL SPEECH; POWER-SPECTRA; PROSODICS; SPEAKING STYLES; SYNTHESIS METHOD;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77954366438     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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