"RIV/49777513:23520/11:43898192!RIV12-TA0-23520___" . . "This paper deals with the traditional problem of the occurrence of audible discontinuities at concatenation points at diphone boundaries in the concatenative speech synthesis. While most of the related studies put stress on the spectral component, we focused on the pitch contours and their role as predictors of the discontinuities. To measure the amount of information contained in the pitch contours, we trained SVM classifiers using perceptual data collected in listening tests. The results have shown that the fine grained pitch contours extracted from a vicinity of the concatenation points carry enough information for classifying continuous and discontinuous joins with a high accuracy."@en . "Hong Kong" . "Pitch Contours as Predictors of Audible Concatenation Artifacts"@en . . . "978-988-18210-9-6" . "pitch contours; concatenation cost; unit selection; speech synthesis"@en . "This paper deals with the traditional problem of the occurrence of audible discontinuities at concatenation points at diphone boundaries in the concatenative speech synthesis. While most of the related studies put stress on the spectral component, we focused on the pitch contours and their role as predictors of the discontinuities. To measure the amount of information contained in the pitch contours, we trained SVM classifiers using perceptual data collected in listening tests. The results have shown that the fine grained pitch contours extracted from a vicinity of the concatenation points carry enough information for classifying continuous and discontinuous joins with a high accuracy." . "Newswood Limited, International Association of Engineers" . "Pitch Contours as Predictors of Audible Concatenation Artifacts" . . . . "Leg\u00E1t, Milan" . . "Matou\u0161ek, Jind\u0159ich" . "220434" . "2"^^ . . "Pitch Contours as Predictors of Audible Concatenation Artifacts" . . "P(GA102/09/0989), P(TA01030476), S" . "2"^^ . . . . . . "San Francisco" . . . . "23520" . "Pitch Contours as Predictors of Audible Concatenation Artifacts"@en . . "Proceedings of World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2011" . . . "RIV/49777513:23520/11:43898192" . "[A2E626D99BD5]" . . "5"^^ . "2011-10-19+02:00"^^ .