Generating and manipulating emotional synthetic speech on a personal computer

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 105-125

  Henton, Caroline ^a   Edelman, Bradley ^b  

^a Voice Processing Corporation   (United States)

^b ADOBE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Animated agents; Authoring training simulators; Emotions in synthetic speech

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; USER INTERFACES;

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; GRAPHICAL EDITOR; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TALKING HEAD; VOCAL EMOTIONS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0030241562     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00429747     Document Type: Article

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