The Statistical Phrase/Accent Model for Intonation Modeling

Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli

Date

• 14:30, Wednesday, June 8^th, 2011
• Room 336

Speaker

• Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli

Abstract

In this talk I will describe the newly developed statistical phrase accent model for generation of natural and expressive intonation contours in speech synthesis. I will briefly mention the conventional approaches and drawbacks of existing intonation models for speech synthesis. I will introduce the proposed statistical model, an associated training algorithm and performance on some tasks.

This is joint work with Dr. Alan Black and Dr. Luis Oliveira.

Note: This seminar will be held in English.