As a major Chinese dialect, Cantonese is well known for its complex tone system. This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the F0 contours of Cantonese using a commandresponse model. Experiments are conducted on a set of designed sentences, from which a set of appropriate tone command patterns for each tone is derived by Analysis-by- Synthesis. The model shows a high accuracy of approximation to the F0 contours of Cantonese, and hence provides a much more efficient description of continuous F0 contours than the traditional 5-scale tone letter notation system.
Cite as: Gu, W., Fujisaki, H., Hirose, K. (2004) Analysis of fundamental frequency contours of Cantonese based on a command-response model. Proc. 5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 5), 227-228
@inproceedings{gu04_ssw,
author={Wentao Gu and Hiroya Fujisaki and Keikichi Hirose},
title={{Analysis of fundamental frequency contours of Cantonese based on a command-response model}},
year=2004,
booktitle={Proc. 5th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 5)},
pages={227--228}
}