SSML: a speech synthesis markup language
Speech Communication
Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Analysis and modeling of F0 contours for cantonese text-to-speech
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
Applying data mining techniques to corpus based prosodic modeling
Speech Communication
A modular holistic approach to prosody modelling for Standard Yorùbá speech synthesis
Computer Speech and Language
Mechanisms of question intonation in mandarin
ISCSLP'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Chinese Spoken Language Processing
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This paper describes a novel prosody generation model. We intend it to broadly support many linguistic theories and multiple languages, for the model imposes no restriction on accent categories and shapes. This capability is crucial to the next generation of text-to-speech systems that will need to synthesize intonation variations for different speech acts, emotions, and styles of speech. The system supports mark-up tags that are mathematically defined and generate f0 deterministically. Underlying the tags is an articulatory model of accent interaction which balances physiological and communication constraints. We specify the model by way of an algorithm for calculating the pitch, and by way of examples. The model allows localized, linguistically reasonable tags, and is suitable for a data-driven fitting process.