PROMINENCE PREDICTION FOR SUPER-SENTENTIAL PROSODIC MODELING BASED ON A NEW DATABASE

5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 203-208

  Zhang, Jason Y ^a   Toth, Arthur R ^a   Collins Thompson, Kevyn ^a   Black, Alan W ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

'CURRENT; HIDDEN VARIABLE; MODEL-BASED OPC; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; POWER; PROSODIC MODELS; PROSODICS; SPEECH DATABASE; UNIT SELECTION; VARIATION MODELS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 85039896917     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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