Effects on TTS quality of methods of realizing natural prosodic variations (original) (raw)

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Abstract

This study attempts to determine whether natural prosody variations and different methods of applying prosodic patterns are relevant to listeners' perceptions of synthetic speech quality. The prosodic patterns of five test sentences including Yes- No -questions, Wh-questions, declaratives, and continuation rises as produced by six female native speakers of four varieties of English were imposed on the same US English

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