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@TECHREPORT{Na_Idiap-RR-05-2013,
author = {Na, Xingyu and Garner, Philip N.},
keywords = {Pitch modelling, pitch target approximation, speech synthesis},
projects = {Idiap},
month = {3},
title = {Convolutional Pitch Target Approximation Model for Speech Synthesis},
type = {Idiap-RR},
number = {Idiap-RR-05-2013},
year = {2013},
institution = {Idiap},
abstract = {In this paper, we investigate pitch contour modelling in speech synthesis based on segmental units. A convolutional pitch target approximation model is proposed. This model allows jointly stochastic modelling of framewise pitch and pitch contour of longer units, of which the intuitive relations are revealed by a convolutional target approximation filter. The pitch contour is stylized by a linear representation called pitch target. In synthesis stage, the likelihood of the framewise model and the pitch target model are jointly maximized using a Toeplitz matrix representing the discrete convolutional filter.},
pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2013/Na_Idiap-RR-05-2013.pdf}
}