Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractExtraction of Arabic Standard MicromelodyA. Chentir, M. Guerti, D. J. HirstProblem statement: In the early days of speech synthesis research the obvious focus of attention was intelligibility. But many researchers agree that the major remaining obstacle to fully acceptable synthetic speech is that it continues to be insufficiently natural. Approach: In this study, we exploited microvariations of fundamental frequency (F0) of speech (intrinsic and co-intrinsic effects) to extract micromelody effect … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 5, Issue 2 · 28 Feb 2009 · 7,284 accessesView PDFCite