Japanese intonation synthesis using superposition and linear alignment models

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Venditti, Jennifer J ^a   Van Santen, Jan P H ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

F0 CONTOURS; LINEAR ALIGNMENTS; MULTILEVELS; NEW APPROACHES; NOCV2; PRECISE ALIGNMENTS; PROSODIC DOMAINS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 85009064173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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