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

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.