PREDICTING GRADIENT F0 VARIATION: PITCH RANGE AND ACCENT PROMINENCE

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1819-1822

  Bulyko, Ivan ^a   Ostendorf, Mari ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AUTOMATIC TRAINING; BOUNDARY MARKERS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; GRADIENT VARIATIONS; PHRASE BOUNDARY; PROSODY PREDICTIONS; VARYING PARAMETERS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85009115619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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