TR-IT-0055 :1994.3

Hélène Valbret

Modelling speaker-specific intonation characteristics

Abstract:This report describes work carried out at ATR during my post-doctoral year, to model the speaker-specific characteristics of intonation using information extracted from the fundamental frequency of the speech waveform. It also describes an implementation of pitch-synchronous signal processing techniques for realisation of intonation in the CHATR speech synthesis system, and the tools developed for the extraction, analysis, and resynthesis of fundamental frequency information.