Speech prosody in speech synthesis : modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis /: modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Keikichi Hirose, Jianhua Tao, editors.
• Editors: Hirose, Keikichi; Tao, Jianhua
• Contents: Modeling of Prosody -- ProZed: A speech prosody editor for linguists, using analysis-by-synthesis -- On degree of freedom in prosody modeling -- Extraction, analysis and synthesis of Fujisaki model parameters -- Probabilistic modeling of pitch contours towards prosody synthesis and conversion -- Para- and non-linguistic issues of prosody -- Communicative speech synthesis as pan-linguistic prosody control -- Mandarin stress analysis and prediction for speech synthesis -- Expressivity in interactive speech synthesis; some para-linguistic and non-linguistic issues of speech prosody for conversational dialogue systems -- Temporally variable multi-attribute morphing of arbitrarily many voices for exploratory research of speech prosody -- Control of prosody in speech synthesis -- Statistical models for dealing with discontinuity of fundamental frequency -- Use of generation process model for improved control of fundamental frequency contours in HMM-based speech synthesis -- Tone Nucleus Model for Emotional Mandarin Speech Synthesis -- Emphasis, word prominence, and continuous wavelet transform in the control of HMM based synthesis -- Exploiting alternatives for text-to-speech synthesis: from machine to human -- Prosody control and variation enhancement techniques for HMM-based expressive speech synthesis.
• Publisher Details: Berlin : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 418; Semantic prosody; English language -- Study and teaching; English language -- Versification; English language -- Semantics; Computational linguistics; Versification; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Phrasebooks; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Readers; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling; Computational linguistics; English language -- Semantics; English language -- Study and teaching; English language -- Versification; Semantic prosody; Versification; Linguistics; Phonology; Syntax; Signal, Image and Speech Processing; Communication Studies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783662452585; 3662452588; 9783662452578
• Related ISBNs: 366245257X; 9783662452578
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