Manipulating speech pitch periods according to optimal insertion/deletion position in residual signal for intonation control in speech synthesis

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Hirai, Toshio ^a,b   Tenpaku, Seiichi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^b  

^a Arcadia Inc   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMAL INSERTION; PITCH PERIOD; QUALITY OF SPEECH; RESIDUAL SIGNALS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009080408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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