Automatic acoustic synthesis of human-like laughter

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 527-535

  Sundaram, Shiva ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MOTION CONTROL;

ACOUSTIC SYNTHESIS; HUMAN-LIKE LAUGHTER; LOCAL CALL LEVEL; SHORT EXHALATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTICS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OSCILLATION; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33846244266     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2390679     Document Type: Article

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