Emo Voice: A system to generate emotions in speech

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 1798-1801

  Cabral, João P ^a   Oliveira, Luís C ^a  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Emotions; Evaluation; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EMOTIONS; EVALUATION; EXCITATION SIGNALS; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; GLOTTAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION SYSTEM; MEASUREMENTS OF; PITCH SYNCHRONOUS;

SPEECH;

EID: 41049115081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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