Voice quality interpolation for emotional text-to-speech synthesis

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 797-800

  Turk, Oytun ^a,b   Schröder, Marc ^c   Bozkurt, Baris ^d   Arslan, Levent M ^a,b  

^a SESTEK INC   (Turkey)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^d FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; INTERPOLATION; MODAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEXT PROCESSING;

SPECTRAL INTERPOLATION; THREE DIPHONE DATABASES; VOCAL EFFORT; VOICE QUALITY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33745199418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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