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Prosody Conversion for Emotional Mandarin Speech Synthesis Using the Tone Nucleus Model.

Wen et al., 2011

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15875639975846901009
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Wen M
Wang M
Hirose K
Minematsu N
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In this paper, tone nucleus model is employed to represent and convert F0 contour for synthesizing an emotional Mandarin speech from a neutral speech. Compared with previous prosody transforming methods, the proposed method 1) only converts the tone nucleus part …
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