Expressive gibberish speech synthesis for affective human-computer interaction

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

Volumn 6231 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 584-590

  Yilmazyildiz, Selma ^a   Latacz, Lukas ^a   Mattheyses, Wesley ^a   Verhelst, Werner ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Affective speech synthesis; expressive speech synthesis; gibberish speech

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL SYSTEM; AFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; AFFECTIVE COMPUTING; AFFECTIVE SPEECH; COMPUTING DEVICES; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; GIBBERISH SPEECH; SPEECH SOUNDS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 78049237000     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15760-8_74     Document Type: Conference Paper

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