TY - GEN
T1 - Prosodic factors for predicting local pitch shape
AU - Klabbers, E.
AU - Van Santen, J.
AU - Wouters, J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was conducted with support from NSF grants 0117911 "Making Dysarthric Speech Intelligible" and 0082718 "Modeling Degree of Articulation for Speech Synthesis", and from Intel and NTT. The authors wish to thank Vincent Pagel for his participation in this project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2002 IEEE.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - In this paper, we investigate the predictive power of different prosodic factorization schemes with respect to pitch movement. We use this to propose an extension of a standard diphone database with diphones that have been recorded in different prosodic contexts. The goal of this research is to reduce the amount of pitch modification required, thereby improving the segmental quality of the synthetic voice. We present a factorization scheme based on the foot structure of utterances and show that this efficient scheme results in a fairly small number of additional diphones that need to be recorded.
AB - In this paper, we investigate the predictive power of different prosodic factorization schemes with respect to pitch movement. We use this to propose an extension of a standard diphone database with diphones that have been recorded in different prosodic contexts. The goal of this research is to reduce the amount of pitch modification required, thereby improving the segmental quality of the synthetic voice. We present a factorization scheme based on the foot structure of utterances and show that this efficient scheme results in a fairly small number of additional diphones that need to be recorded.
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U2 - 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224387
DO - 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224387
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84966340300
T3 - Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis
SP - 123
EP - 126
BT - Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis
Y2 - 11 September 2002 through 13 September 2002
ER -