INTERFACE: A new tool for building emotive/expressive talking heads

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 781-784

  Tisato, Graziano ^a   Cosi, Piero ^a   Drioli, Carlo ^a   Tesser, Fabio ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VOCODERS; XML;

ANIMATION ENGINE; COHEN-MASSARO COARTICULATION; INTERFACE;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33745182909     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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