Constructing stylistic synthesis databases from audio books

INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 1750-1753

  Zhao, Yong ^a   Peng, Di ^b   Wang, Lijuan ^c   Chu, Min ^a   Chen, Yining ^a   Yu, Peng ^a   Guo, Jun ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Emotional speech; Expressive speech synthesis; Voice style

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EMOTIONAL SPEECH; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; IDENTIFICATION RATES; NATURAL SPEECH; SPEECH CORPORA; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; UNIT SELECTION APPROACH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547535941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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