Speech synthesis with various emotional expressions and speaking styles by style interpolation and morphing

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E88-D, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2484-2491

  Tachibana, Makoto ^a,c   Yamagishi, Junichi ^a,c,d,e,f,g   Masuko, Takashi ^a,b,c,f,g   Kobayashi, Takao ^a,f,g,h  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c ASJ   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories (ATR SLC)   (Japan)

^f IEEE   (Japan)

^g ISCA   (Japan)

^h IPSJ   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emotional expression; Hidden semi Markov model (HSMM); HMM based speech synthesis; Speaking style; Style interpolation; Style morphing

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY;

EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION; HIDDEN SEMI-MARKOV MODEL (HSMM); HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEAKING STYLE; STYLE INTERPOLATION; STYLE MORPHING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 29144475179     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.11.2484     Document Type: Article

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