Contents

Part I Modeling of Prosody

1 ProZed: A Speech Prosody Editor for Linguists, Using
Analysis-by-Synthesis ......................................................................... 3
Daniel J. Hirst

2 Degrees of Freedom in Prosody Modeling .................................................19

Yi Xu and Santitham Prom-on

3 Extraction, Analysis and Synthesis of Fujisaki model Parameters . . . 35

Hansjörg Mixdorff

4 Probabilistic Modeling of Pitch Contours Toward Prosody Synthesis and

Conversion .........................................................................................49
Hirokazu Kameoka

Part II Para- and Non-Linguistic Issues of Prosody

5 Communicative Speech Synthesis as Pan-Linguistic Prosody Control 73

Yoshinori Sagisaka and Yoko Greenberg

6 Mandarin Stress Analysis and Prediction for Speech Synthesis ...............83

Ya Li and Jianhua Tao

7 Expressivity in Interactive Speech Synthesis; Some Paralinguistic

and Nonlinguistic Issues of Speech Prosody for Conversational
Dialogue Systems ..........................................................................................97
Nick Campbell and Ya Li

8 Temporally Variable Multi attribute Morphing of Arbitrarily Many

Voices for Exploratory Research of Speech Prosody ...............................109
Hideki Kawahara

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Part III Control of Prosody in Speech Synthesis

9 Statistical Models for Dealing with Discontinuity of Fundamental

Frequency ...................................................................................................123
Kai Yu

10 Use of Generation Process Model for Improved Control

of Fundamental Frequency Contours in HMM-Based
Speech Synthesis ........................................................................................145
Keikichi Hirose

11 Tone Nucleus Model for Emotional Mandarin Speech Synthesis ...........161

Miaomiao Wang

12 Emphasis, Word Prominence, and Continuous Wavelet Transform

in the Control of HMM-Based Synthesis .................................................173
Martti Vainio, Antti Suni and Daniel Aalto

13 Exploiting Alternatives for Text-To-Speech Synthesis: From Machine

to Human ....................................................................................................189
Nicolas Obin, Christophe Veaux and Pierre Lanchantin

14 Prosody Control and Variation Enhancement Techniques

for HMM-Based Expressive Speech Synthesis ........................................203
Takao Kobayashi