Modeling speaking rate for voice fonts

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2917-2920

  Verma, Ashish ^a   Kumar, Arun ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

DESCRIPTORS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; NEW APPROACHES; PROSODIC FEATURES; SPEAKING RATE; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SPEECH CORPORA; VOICE FONTS;

SPEECH;

EID: 85009160026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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