Prosodic Processing

Springer Handbooks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 471-488

  van Santen, Jan ^a   Mishra, Taniya ^a   Klabbers, Esther ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intonational Phrase; Pitch Accent; Pitch Contour; Speech Synthesis System; Unit Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868924957     PISSN: 25228692     EISSN: 25228706     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49127-9_23     Document Type: Chapter

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