DocumentCode
2667300
Title
Modeling micromelodic effects in standard Arabic using MOMEL
Author
Chentir, Amina ; Hirst, Daniel J. ; Guerti, Mhania
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron., Saad Dahlab Univ., Blida, Algeria
fYear
2010
fDate
12-15 Dec. 2010
Firstpage
691
Lastpage
693
Abstract
In this paper, we describe our approach allowing as far as possible, an automatic extraction of the micromelodic information of the speech signal using the fundamental frequency curve and its macromelodic profile obtained by the MOMEL (Modelling Melody) algorithm. The results reinforce the idea that the microprosodic effect exist in standard Arabic and the possibility of including it in a prosodic generating unit by a simple model to provide improved naturalness in speech synthesis.
Keywords
speech synthesis; MOMEL; automatic extraction; micromelodic effects modeling; micromelodic information; modelling melody; speech signal; speech synthesis; standard Arabic; Laboratories; Arabic standard; fundamental frequency; micromelody; prosody;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), 2010 17th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Athens
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-8155-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICECS.2010.5724606
Filename
5724606
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