Modeling DCT parameterized F0 trajectory at intonation phrase level with DNN or decision tree

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2273-2277

  Yin, Xiang ^a,b   Lei, Ming ^b   Qian, Yao ^b   Soong, Frank K ^b   He, Lei ^b   Ling, Zhen Hua ^a   Dai, Li Rong ^a  

^a National Engineering Laboratory for Speech and Language Information Processing   (China)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

DCT; Deep neural network; F0 contour; Hidden Markov model; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; DISPENSERS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DCT; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS; F0 CONTOURS; LONG-TERM STRUCTURES; PARAMETERIZED; PHRASE INTONATION; SPEECH PROSODY;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 84910044428     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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