Harmonic model for female voice emotional synthesis

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

Volumn 5707 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 41-48

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

^a SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF MEASUREMENT SCIENCE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Emotional speech; Emotional voice conversion; Harmonic speech model; Spectral envelope

Indexed keywords

AUTO-REGRESSIVE; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; EMOTIONAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS; FOURIER; HARMONIC MODEL; LISTENING TESTS; PROSODIC MODIFICATIONS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SPECTRAL FLATNESS; SPEECH MODELS; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TRANSITION FREQUENCIES; VOICE CONVERSION;

BIOMETRICS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 77952039799     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04391-8_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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