Automatic estimation of accentual attribute values of words to realize accent sandhi in Japanese text-to-speech conversion

Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 107-110

  Minematsu, N ^a   Kita, R ^a   Hirose, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ATTRIBUTE VALUES; AUTOMATIC ESTIMATION; EVALUATION EXPERIMENTS; HIGH QUALITY; JAPANESE TEXT; PROSODY GENERATIONS; TEXT TO SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84966415378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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3. S. Kawamoto et al., "Design of software toolkit for anthropomorphic spoken dialogue agent software with customization-oriented features," Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan, vol.43, no.7 (2002, to appear).
4. R. Kita, N. Minematsu, and K. Hirose, "Development of rules of word accent sandhi and their improvement for Japanese TTS systems," Technical report of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, SP2002-26 (2002).