Starting from the author's view on the process of information manifestation in the tonal
features of speech, this paper emphasizes the importance of objective and quantitative …

Variability has been one of the major challenges for both theoretical understanding and
computer synthesis of speech prosody. In this paper we show that economical …

Declination has been studied intensively from production data and from perceptual
experiments. There is a clear trend in many languages that Fo values tend to drift down in an …

While the tonal characteristics of Chinese syllables have been qualitatively described in
traditional phonetics, quantitative analysis requires a mathematical model. This paper …

Starting from the author's view on the process of information manifestation in the tonal
features of speech, this paper emphasizes the importance of objective and quantitative …

This paper describes the command-response model for F0 contour generation originally
developed for the common Japanese, and demonstrates its capability of generating F0 …

A novel approach to the context-clustering process in a speaker-independent HMM-based
Thai speech synthesis is addressed in this paper. Improvements to the tone correctness (ie …

Emphasis and question are two factors that have significant effects on F/sub 0/contours for
various languages, among which tone languages require more careful study because their …

It is well known that the F0 contour plays an important role in conveying prosodic
information, but the process of synthesizing the F0 contour from the underlying linguistic …

This paper describes the command-response model for F/sub O/contour generation
originally developed for common Japanese, and demonstrates its capability of generating …