@inproceedings{1665466796de493fad1943ab8947c9e3,
title = "Tone generation by maximizing joint likelihood of syllabic HMMs for mandarin speech synthesis",
abstract = "A tone generation method by maximizing the joint likelihood of syllabic HMMs is proposed to improve the Mandarin speech synthesis. F0 sequence is generated by jointly maximizing the likelihood of the state-level F0 model and syllable-level tone model under the constraint of mean F0 of the adjacent units. The optimal weight of the tone component is searched in terms of the parameter generation error and correlation coefficients. Objective and subjective evaluations both prove the positive effects of this method. The generation error is reduced by 26.7\%, the correlation coefficient is increased by 6.5\%, and the prosody perception is significantly improved.",
keywords = "F0 contour, Speech prosody, Speech synthesis, Tone generation",
author = "Na, \{Xing Yu\} and Wang, \{Chao Min\} and Xiang Xie and Kuang, \{Jing Ming\} and He, \{Ya Ling\}",
year = "2012",
language = "English",
isbn = "9787560848693",
series = "Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2012",
publisher = "Tongji University Press",
pages = "23--26",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2012",
note = "6th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2012, SP 2012 ; Conference date: 22-05-2012 Through 25-05-2012",
}