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#1 Including pitch accent optionality in unit selection text-to-speech synthesis [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi¹]

Authors: Leonardo Badino ; Robert A. J. Clark ; Volker Strom

A significant variability in pitch accent placement is found when comparing the patterns of prosodic prominence realized by different English speakers reading the same sentences. In this paper we describe a simple approach to incorporate this variability to synthesize prosodic prominence in unit selection text-to-speech synthesis.