Training prosodic phrasing rules for Chinese TTS systems

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1159-1162

  Chen, Weijun ^a   Lin, Fuzong ^a   Li, Jianmin ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; COMPUTER AIDED; DESIGNING RULES; LARGE CORPORA; NOCV1; PROSODIC PHRASING MODEL; PROSODIC PHRASINGS; RULE-BASED LEARNING; TTS SYSTEMS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009128704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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