Fundamental frequency contour models

Hirose, K., Eto, M., and Minematsu, N. Improved corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours using generation process model. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing 2002 (2002). 

The majority of this chapter focuses on the synthesis of intonation. The main acoustic representation of intonation is fundamental frequency (FO), such that intonation is often defined as the manipulation of FO for commimicative or linguistic purposes. As we shall see, techniques for S5mthesizing FO contours are inherently linked to the model of intonation used, and so the whole topic of intonation, including theories, models and FO synthesis is dealt with here. In addition, we cover the topic of predicting intonation form from text, which was deferred from Chapter 6 as we first require an understanding of intonational phenomena theories and models before explaining this. 

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