Control and prediction of the impact of pitch modification on synthetic speech quality

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 317-320

  Klabbers, Esther ^a   Van Santen, Jan P H ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ANNOTATION SCHEME; DISTANCE MEASURE; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; FOOT STRUCTURE; PITCH CONTOURS; PITCH MODIFICATION; SELECTION MECHANISM; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84947205078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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