Improved corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours using generation process model

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2085-2088

  Hirose, Keikichi ^a   Eto, Masaya ^a   Minematsu, Nobuaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

AUTOMATIC PARSING; COMPONENT PARAMETERS; CONVERSION SYSTEMS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY CONTOUR; GENERATION PROCESS; HEURISTIC RULES; PREDICTION PROCESS;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 85009291529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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