The ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis September 25-28, 1990 Autrans, France

Intonation in Segment-Concatenated Speech

A. K. Datta, N. R. Ganguly, B. Mukherjee

Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India

A signal-domain approach for controlling intonation and stress in segment concatenated speech is reported. The extraction and editing of pitch-period in the signal is shown to be an effective way to deal with these suprasegmentals. In addition to the generation of querry sentences, generation of songs is also reported.

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Bibliographic reference.  Datta, A. K. / Ganguly, N. R. / Mukherjee, B. (1990): "Intonation in segment-concatenated speech", In SSW1-1990, 153-156.