Prosodic factors for predicting local pitch shape

Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 123-126

  Klabbers, E ^a   Van Santen, J ^a   Wouters, J ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DIPHONES; EFFICIENT SCHEMES; FOOT STRUCTURE; PITCH MODIFICATION; PREDICTIVE POWER; SYNTHETIC VOICES;

FACTORIZATION;

EID: 84966340300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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