Evolving emotional prosody

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 1826-1829

  Alm, Cecilia Ovesdotter ^a   Llorà, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

aiGa; Emotions; Interactive evolution; Prosody

Indexed keywords

AIGA; EMOTIONAL PROSODY; EMOTIONS; INTERACTIVE EVOLUTION; INTERACTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHM; PARAMETER EVOLUTION; PROSODY; RESYNTHESIS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 44949165742     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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