Using Decision Trees within the Tilt Intonation Model to Predict F0 Contours

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1627-1630

  Dusterhoff, Kurt E ^a   Black, Alan W ^a   Taylor, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CLASSIFICATION TREES; EVENT LOCATION; F0 CONTOURS; GENERATION SYSTEMS; INTONATION GENERATIONS; INTONATION MODELING; LOCATION TREE; PARAMETERIZED; SYSTEM USE; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 84860832249     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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