Parametric modeling of intonation using vector quantization

3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 311-316

  Möhler, Gregor ^a   Conkie, Alistair ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VECTORS;

APPROXIMATION FUNCTION; BOUNDARY PHENOMENA; CLASSIFICATION TREES; CODEBOOKS; PARAMETER VECTORS; PARAMETRIC MODELS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PITCH ACCENTS; SETS OF FEATURES; VECTOR QUANTISATION;

VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

EID: 85119338514     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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