F0 generation for speech synthesis using a multi-tier approach

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2077-2080

  Sun, Xuejing ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE SETS; INFORMAL LISTENING; MULTI-TIER; NOCV2; PARAMETRIC REPRESENTATIONS; PITCH TARGET; REGRESSION TREES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85009257781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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