Spectrum modification for emotional speech synthesis

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

Volumn 5398 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 232-241

  Přibilová, Anna ^a   Přibil, Jiří ^b  

^a SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Emotional speech; Emotional voice conversion; Spectral envelope; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

EMOTIONAL SPEECH; EMOTIONAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS; EMOTIONAL STATE; EMOTIONAL VOICE CONVERSION; HIGH FREQUENCY; LISTENING TESTS; NON-LINEAR; SPECTRAL ENVELOPE; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SPECTRAL FLATNESS; SPECTRAL MODIFICATIONS; SPECTRAL NOISE; SPECTRUM MODIFICATION; SPEECH SPECTRA;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 67650486451     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00525-1_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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