Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis

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Modeling of Prosody.- ProZed: A speech prosody editor for linguists, using analysis-by-synthesis.- On degree of freedom in prosody modeling.- Extraction, analysis and synthesis of Fujisaki model parameters.- Probabilistic modeling of pitch contours towards prosody synthesis and conversion.- Para- and non-linguistic issues of prosody.- Communicative speech synthesis as pan-linguistic prosody control.- Mandarin stress analysis and prediction for speech synthesis.- Expressivity in interactive speech synthesis some para-linguistic and non-linguistic issues of speech prosody for conversational dialogue systems.- Temporally variable multi-attribute morphing of arbitrarily many voices for exploratory research of speech prosody.- Control of prosody in speech synthesis.- Statistical models for dealing with discontinuity of fundamental frequency.- Use of generation process model for improved control of fundamental frequency contours in HMM-based speech synthesis.- Tone Nucleus Model for Emotional Mandarin Speech Synthesis.- Emphasis, word prominence, and continuous wavelet transform in the control of HMM based synthesis.- Exploiting alternatives for text-to-speech synthesis: from machine to human.- Prosody control and variation enhancement techniques for HMM-based expressive speech synthesis.