Automatic phonetic segmentation of spanish emotional speech

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2376-2379

  Gallardo Antolin A ^a   Barra, R ^b   Schroder M ^c   Krstulovic, S ^c   Montero, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

Automatic phonetic segmentation; Emotional speech synthesis; Expressive speech

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; KETONES; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUTOMATIC PHONETIC SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATIC TECHNIQUES; EMOTIONAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS; EMOTIONAL SPEECHES; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; HIGH QUALITIES; OVERALL PERFORMANCES; PHONETIC SEGMENTATIONS; SEGMENTATION PERFORMANCES; SMALL TRAININGS; SPANISHS; TRAINING SETS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149117453     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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