Prosodic Modeling in Text-to-Speech Synthesis

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages KN19-KN28

  van Santen, Jan P H ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; LIMIT SETS; PROSODIC MODELS; PROSODICS; RESEARCH ISSUES; SIGNAL-PROCESSING; SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE; STATISTICAL CONSTRAINTS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM; TRAINING CORPUS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85135169269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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