Modelling personality in voices of talking products through prosodic parameters

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 313-316

  Schmitz, Michael ^a   Krüger, Antonio ^b   Schmidt, Sarah ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthropomorphic interfaces; Prosody modelling; Talking products

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; USER INTERFACES;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC INTERFACES; DESIRED IMPRESSION; PROSODIC PARAMETERS; PROSODY MODELING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34648823291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1216295.1216355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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