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Word Level Stress as an intrinsic property of Word Level Prosody and Pitch Modeling through a pencil of functions
Year: | 1994 | ||||
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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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