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Prosody Modification on Mixed-Language Speech Synthesis
2008
2008 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing
This paper proposes a method to generate natural prosody parameters in Chinese and English mixed-language speech synthesis system which is based on separate Chinese, English, and a small bilingual corpus. Prosodic assimilation of English words to Chinese contexts can be found by observing the bilingual corpus. The most obvious assimilation characteristics are the wider pitch range and the longer duration. A prosody modification model based on this observation is proposed to modify mono-lingual
doi:10.1109/chinsl.2008.ecp.75
dblp:conf/iscslp/ZhangT08
fatcat:wi46kplk5rbfjd32sw6rsexwvm