A HMM-based fuzzy affective model for emotional speech synthesis

ICSPS 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Qin, Yuqiang ^a,b   Zhang, Xueying ^b   Ying, Hui ^c  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c TAIYUAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Emotion computing; Emotional speech synthesis; Fuzzy emotion hypercube; Hidden Markov Models(HMM)

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE MODEL; BASIC EMOTIONS; EMOTION COMPUTING; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; EMOTIONAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS; FUZZY MODELS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS(HMM); HYPERCUBE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 77957255388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSPS.2010.5555658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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