Prosodic focus control in reply speech generation for a spoken dialogue system of information retrieval

Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 139-142

  Kiriyama, S ^a   Hirose, K ^b   Minematsu, N ^b  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUTOMATIC PROCESSING; EVALUATION EXPERIMENTS; FOCUS CONTROL; LISTENING TESTS; PROSODIC FEATURES; SPEECH GENERATION; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

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EID: 84966322313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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