Prosody control for speaking and singing styles
By proper control of prosody, text-to-speech systems already have the capacity to imitate distinctive speaking styles. We show two examples where we can capture the critical features: the singing style of Dinah Shore and the speaking style of Martin Luther King Jr. The styles are described by Stem-M...
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International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
2001
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| description | By proper control of prosody, text-to-speech systems already have the capacity to imitate distinctive speaking styles. We show two examples where we can capture the critical features: the singing style of Dinah Shore and the speaking style of Martin Luther King Jr. The styles are described by Stem-ML tags (soft template mark-up language), which offers the flexibility needed to control accent shapes, phrasal pitch contours, and amplitude profiles, for speech as well as for singing. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:923c502c-5c4b-47af-9db9-e72f9db42e942022-03-26T23:24:02ZProsody control for speaking and singing stylesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:923c502c-5c4b-47af-9db9-e72f9db42e94LinguisticsEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetInternational Speech Communication Association (ISCA)2001Shih, CKochanski, GBy proper control of prosody, text-to-speech systems already have the capacity to imitate distinctive speaking styles. We show two examples where we can capture the critical features: the singing style of Dinah Shore and the speaking style of Martin Luther King Jr. The styles are described by Stem-ML tags (soft template mark-up language), which offers the flexibility needed to control accent shapes, phrasal pitch contours, and amplitude profiles, for speech as well as for singing. |
| spellingShingle | Linguistics Shih, C Kochanski, G Prosody control for speaking and singing styles |
| title | Prosody control for speaking and singing styles |
| title_full | Prosody control for speaking and singing styles |
| title_fullStr | Prosody control for speaking and singing styles |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prosody control for speaking and singing styles |
| title_short | Prosody control for speaking and singing styles |
| title_sort | prosody control for speaking and singing styles |
| topic | Linguistics |
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