An experiment with evaluation of emotional speech conversion by spectrograms

Measurement Science Review

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 72-77

  Pribil J ^a,b   Pribilova A ^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; Evaluation of synthetic speech; Periodogram; Spectrogram

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953859263     PISSN: 13358871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10048-010-0017-3     Document Type: Article

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