Analysis of Affective Speech Recordings using the Superpositional Intonation Model

6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 339-344

  Klabbers, Esther ^a   Mishra, Taniya ^a   van Santen, Jan ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AFFECTIVE SPEECH; ENERGY; INTONATION MODELING; PITCH-CONTOUR; PROSODIC FEATURES; SPEAKING RATE; SPECTRAL TILT; SPEECH RECORDING; SYNTHESIS METHOD;

EID: 67650851759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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