Publication - Word Level Stress as an intrinsic property of Word Level Prosody and Pitch Modeling through a pencil of functions
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Word Level Stress as an intrinsic property of Word Level Prosody and Pitch Modeling through a pencil of functions

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Year: 1994
Authors: M. Vlahakis; Stavroula-Evita Fotinea; George Carayannis
Volume: I
Book title: Proc. EURASIP/EUSIPCO-94, Signal Processing VII "Theories and Applications
Pages: 1-3
Address: Edinburgh, Scotland
Date: September
Abstract:
This paper reports the results of a complete study of F0 patterns along with durational information for their proper application, in the case of single word utterances of the Greek language expressing both affirmative statements and questions. A third type of single word expression by which the listener is prompted that more information follows is also considered. This is useful for a systematic study of the influence of the context. For each type of expression a representative pattern is obtained and modelled by using Chebyshev approximation techniques. The quality of the resulting pencil of functions is evaluated in the environment of a text to speech synthesis (TTS) system which is based on the syllable concatenation approach.
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