Spectral flatness analysis for emotional speech synthesis and transformation

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

Volumn 5641 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 106-115

  Přibil, Jiří ^a,b   Přibilová, Anna ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEASUREMENT SCIENCE   (Slovakia)

^c SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Emotional speech; Spectral flatness; Speech analysis and synthesis

Indexed keywords

CEPSTRAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; EMOTIONAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; HIGH-FREQUENCY NOISE; MEAN VALUES; NEUTRAL STATE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH; SPECTRAL FLATNESS; SPECTRAL NOISE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

MODAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350382789     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03320-9_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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