Statistical prosodic modeling from corpus design to parameter estimation.

The increasing availability of carefully designed and collected speech corpora opens up new possibilities for the statistical estimation of formal multivariate prosodic models. At Apple Computer, statistical prosodic modeling exploits the Victoria corpus, created to broadly support ongoing speech sy...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	IEEE Transactions on speech and audio processing 9, 1 (2001).
Main Author:	Bellegarda, J.R
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Apple Computer. Macintosh OS X. Victoria corpus. Continuous speech. Corpus design. Experimental results. Formal multivariate prosodic models. Function word sequences. Parameter estimation. Piecewise linear transformation. Pitch duration estimation. Pitch modeling. Polyphones. Prosodic contexts. Reiterant speech subcorpus. Smooth contours. Speech corpora. Speech synthesis research and development. Statistical estimation. Statistical prosodic modeling. Sums-of-products approach. Superpositional pitch models. Text-to-speech system.