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A Study on Pitch Patterns in Japanese Speakers of English with Verification by Speech Re-Synthesis

音声再合成による検証を用いた英語の日本人話者におけるピッチパターンに関する研究

Author (2)： NARIAI Tomoko (Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, Univ. of Tsukuba) ,  TANAKA Kazuyo (Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, Univ. of Tsukuba)
Material： IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)  (IEICE Trans Inf Syst (Inst Electron Inf Commun Eng))
Volume： E94-D  Issue： 12  Page： 2495-2502 (J-STAGE)  Publication year： 2011 
JST Material Number： L1371A  ISSN： 0916-8532  Document type： Article
Article type： 原著論文  Country of issue： Japan (JPN)  Language： ENGLISH (EN)

Thesaurus term： *English ,  *voice ,  synthesis ,  verification ,  *learning ,  statistical analysis ,  rule ,  correction(modification) ,  vocalization ,  characteristic
Semi thesaurus term： feature ,  pitch ,  meter ,  *second language ,  *Japanese ,  irregularity ,  *speaker

JST classification (3)： Natural language processing  (JE06000L) ,  Statistics  (AB08000H) ,  CAI  (JE09000G)

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Terms in the title (7)： 音声 ,  検証 ,  英語 ,  日本人 ,  話者 ,  ピッチ ,  研究