Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.60805008,60928005,and 61003094);the Ph.D.Programs Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China (No.200800031015)
In continuous speech, the pitch contour of the same syllable may vary much due to its contextual information. The Parallel Encoding and Target Approximation (PENTA) model is applied here to Mandarin speech synthesis...