@InProceedings{Hirose2010_544,
<br/>   author = {Keikichi Hirose and Keiko Ochi and Miaomiao Wang and Tatsuya Matsuda and Miaomiao Wen and Nobuaki Minematsu},
<br/>   booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2010},
<br/>   title = {Using FO Contour Generation Process Model for Improved and Flexible Control of Prosodic Features in HMM-based Speech Synthesis},
<br/>   year = {2010},
<br/>   editor = {Hansjörg Mixdorff},
<br/>   month = mar,
<br/>   pages = {84--93},
<br/>   publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
<br/>   abstract  = {Generation process model of fundamental frequency contours known as
Fujisaki&#039;s model is ideal to represent global features of prosody. It is a command
response model, where the commands have clear relations with linguistic and
para/non linguistic information included in the utterance. Therefore, by controlling
fundamental frequency contours in the framework of the generation process model, a
more flexible control of prosodic features comes possible in speech synthesis. Also,
the model can be used to solve the problems of HMM-based speech synthesis, which
arise from frame-by-frame treatment of fundamental frequencies. In this paper, two
methods for improved control of prosodic features in HMM-based speech synthesis,
and one method for flexible fundamental frequency control to realize prosodic
focuses in synthetic speech, are presented. All these methods are based on the
generation process model.},
<br/>   isbn = {978-3-941298-85-9},
<br/>   issn = {0940-6832},
<br/>   keywords = {Prosody and Affect},
<br/>   url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/2010_84_93.pdf},
<br/>}