An Analysis of Pitch in Chinese Spontaneous Speech
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In this study, based on spontaneous speech corpus, the F0 values and the F0 ranges of 79 speakers are analyzed. It is found that when F0 value is converted to semitone, there is no difference between the ranges of the two genders. Intonation phrases can be classified according to their pitch range and pitch register.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004