A new pitch modeling approach for Mandarin speech

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 109-112

  Lai, Wen Hsing ^a,b   Wang, Yih Ru ^a   Chen, Sin Horng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNGHWA TELECOM CO LTD   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AFFECTING FACTORS; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; NEW APPROACHES; PHRASE BOUNDARY; PITCH CONTOURS; PITCH MODELING; PROSODIC STATE; PUNCTUATION MARKS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009180973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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