Informed blending of databases for emotional speech synthesis

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 501-504

  Hofer, Gregor O ^a   Richmond, Korin ^a   Clark, Robert A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COSTS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EVALUATION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

COST FUNCTIONS; EMOTIONAL TARGET COSTS; EMOTIONAL UNITS; NEUTRAL DATABASES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33745202619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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