Expressing degree of activation in synthetic speech

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1128-1136

  Schröder, Marc ^a  

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

Author keywords

Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; EMOTION DIMENSIONS ACTIVATION; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34047258168     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.876118     Document Type: Article

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