Calliphony: A real-time intonation controller for expressive speech synthesis

6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 345-350

  Le Beux, Sylvain ^a   Rilliard, Albert ^a   d’Alessandro, Christophe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

gestures; prosodic modeling; prosodic perception; prosodic synthesis

Indexed keywords

EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; GESTURE; NEW APPROACHES; PROSODIC MODELS; PROSODIC PERCEPTION; PROSODIC SYNTHESIS; PROSODICS; REAL- TIME; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79953045852     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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