A unit selection approach to F0 modeling and its application to emphasis

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 700-705

  Raux, Antoine ^a   Black, Alan W ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

F0 CONTOURS; F0 MODEL; ITS APPLICATIONS; RULE BASED; SPEECH DATABASE; SYSTEM FLEXIBILITY; UNIT SELECTION APPROACH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84946736935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318525     Document Type: Conference Paper

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