TY - GEN
T1 - Prediction and synthesis of prosodic effects on spectral balance of vowels
AU - Van Santen, J. P.H.
AU - Niu, Xiaochuan
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has been supported by NSF Grants 00117911, "Making Dysarthric Speech Intelligible", and 0082718, "Modeling Degree of Articulation for Speech Synthesis", and by Intel Corporation. We are grateful to Johan Wouters, Esther Klabbers, Gilead Cohen, and Jacques de Villiers for helpful discussion.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2002 IEEE.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Linguistic control factors such as word stress and phrase-finality affect not only duration and pitch, but also spectral structure and spectral dynamics. We propose methods for predicting and synthesizing prosodic effects on spectral balance: (i) a new multi-dimensional measure of spectral balance, in which energy is measured in five "formant frequency range" bands; (ii) statistical methods for analyzing the effects of multiple interacting factors on spectral balance; (iii) a method for synthesizing speech whose spectral balance is controlled by prosodic factors.
AB - Linguistic control factors such as word stress and phrase-finality affect not only duration and pitch, but also spectral structure and spectral dynamics. We propose methods for predicting and synthesizing prosodic effects on spectral balance: (i) a new multi-dimensional measure of spectral balance, in which energy is measured in five "formant frequency range" bands; (ii) statistical methods for analyzing the effects of multiple interacting factors on spectral balance; (iii) a method for synthesizing speech whose spectral balance is controlled by prosodic factors.
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U2 - 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224395
DO - 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224395
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84966389404
T3 - Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis
SP - 147
EP - 150
BT - Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis
Y2 - 11 September 2002 through 13 September 2002
ER -