Clustering of foot-based pitch contours in expressive speech

5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 73-78

  Klabbers, Esther ^a   van Santen, Jan P H ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CLUSTERINGS; EXPRESSIVE-SPEECH; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; INTONATION GENERATIONS; INTONATION MODELING; LINEAR ALIGNMENTS; PHRASE BOUNDARY; PITCH-CONTOUR; SYNTHESIS CHAINS; WEAKEST LINKS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85089836713     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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