MULTILINGUAL PROSODY MODELLING USING CASCADES OF REGRESSION TREES AND NEURAL NETWORKS

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1835-1838

  Fackrell, J W A ^a   Vereecken, H ^b   Martens, J P ^b   Van Coile, B ^a,b  

^a NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CART; Neural Networks; Prosody; Speech Synthesis

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CART; MODEL REGRESSIONS; MULTILAYERS PERCEPTRONS; NEURAL-NETWORKS; PHRASE BOUNDARY; PROSODICS; PROSODY; PROSODY MODELING; REGRESSION TREES; TREE-NETWORK;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85135273903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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