Expressive speech synthesis using emotion-specific speech inventories

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5042 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 225-234

  Zainkó, Csaba ^a   Fék, Márk ^a   Németh, Géza ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Basic emotions; Diphone and triphone inventory; Expressive speech synthesis; Forced choice; Listening test

Indexed keywords

FLOW INTERACTIONS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

BASIC EMOTIONS; DIPHONE AND TRIPHONE INVENTORY; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; FORCED CHOICE; LISTENING TEST;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 58349120622     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70872-8_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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