Prosody Modelling in Czech Text-to-Speech Synthesis

6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 200-205

  Romportl, Jan ^a   Kala, Jiří ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

DATA-DRIVEN MODEL; DURATION MODELLING; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; MODEL-BASED OPC; PROSODIC FEATURES; PROSODY MODELING; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84893371793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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