Emotional FESTIVAL-MBROLA TTS synthesis

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 505-508

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

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GESTURE RECOGNITION; MODIFICATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EMOTIONAL PROSODIC DATA; EMOTIONAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TEXT TO SPEECH (TTS) SYNTHESIZER; VOICE QUALITY (VQ);

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33745191648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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