Title :
Research on Prosody Modeling in Chinese Speech Synthesis
Author :
Jiang Bao-chen ; He Pei-gang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Eng., Shandong Univ. at Weihai, Weihai, China
Abstract :
Prosody model is responsible to predict the quantitive acoustics parameters according to the qualitative prosody information in high level. A predictor was designed and implemented, which can predict the pitch contour, duration and pause of the Chinese syllable. Experiment results show that this model is good enough, and the output speech is more natural than previous system to some extent.
Keywords :
speech synthesis; Chinese speech synthesis; Chinese syllable; pitch contour; qualitative prosody information; quantitive acoustics parameters; Acoustics; Artificial neural networks; Conferences; Predictive models; Speech; Speech synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Internet Technology and Applications, 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5142-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5143-2
DOI :
10.1109/ITAPP.2010.5566215
