@InProceedings{Trouvain_et_al:1998,
AUTHOR = {Trouvain, Jürgen and Barry, William J. and Nielsen, Claus and Andersen, Ove},
TITLE = {Implications of Energy Declinations for Speech Synthesis},
YEAR = {1998},
BOOKTITLE = {3rd ESCA/ COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, November},
PAGES = {47-52},
ADDRESS = {Jenolan Caves, Australia},
ABSTRACT = {This paper examines whether observed phenomena in energy declination can be used to improve the naturalness of synthetic speech. In two production experiments different aspects of intensity fall-off within utterances are analysed including degree of stress, phrase length, phrase boundaries. Energy manipulation was carried out using diphone synthesis as a basis for generating stimuli for perception tests in English and Danish. The results of the listening experiments, in which different versions of a paragraph were ranked for naturalness indicate that amplitude differences can contribute to greater naturalness. However, it is apparent that fine-tuning of amplitude requires good quality synthesis at the more basic prosodic levels.},
ANNOTE = {COLIURL : Trouvain:1998:IED.pdf Trouvain:1998:IED.ps}
}
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