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#1 Identification of contrast and its emphatic realization in HMM based speech synthesis [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi¹]

Authors: Leonardo Badino ; J. Sebastian Andersson ; Junichi Yamagishi ; Robert A. J. Clark

The work presented in this paper proposes to identify contrast in the form of contrastive word pairs and prosodically signal it with emphatic accents in a Text-to-Speech (TTS) application using a Hidden-Markov-Model (HMM) based speech synthesis system.