GENERATING EMOTIONAL SPEECH WITH A CONCATENATIVE SYNTHESIZER

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Rank, Erhard ^a   Pirker, Hannes ^a  

^a AUSTRIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS; CONTROL SETTINGS; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; HARMONIC TO NOISE RATIOS; HARMONICS-TO-NOISE RATIOS; PARAMETER SET; PARAMETER SPACES; QUALITY PARAMETERS; SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; VOICE QUALITY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33646817084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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