Expressive speech recognition and synthesis as enabling technologies for affective robot-child communication

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4261 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-8

  Yilmazyildiz, Selma ^a   Mattheyses, Wesley ^a   Patsis, Yorgos ^a   Verhelst, Werner ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GESTURE RECOGNITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARCHETYPICAL EMOTIONS; CHILD-MACHINE COMMUNICATION; CONCATENATIVE SYNTHESIS; EXPRESSION RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33845248675     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11922162_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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