A statistical approach for modeling prosody features using POS tags for emotional speech synthesis

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bulut, Murtaza ^a   Lee, Sungbok ^a,b   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a,b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversion; Emotion; Energy; POS; Prosody

Indexed keywords

EMOTION; PARAMETER DIFFERENCES; POS; PROSODY;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34547519038     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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