Prediction and realisation of conversational characteristics by utilising spontaneous speech for unit selection

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Andersson, Sebastian ^a   Georgila, Kallirroi ^b   Traum, David ^b   Aylett, Matthew ^a,c   Clark, Robert A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

^c CEREPROC LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversation; Filled pauses; Lexical fillers; Speech synthesis; Spontaneous speech; Unit selection

Indexed keywords

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CONVERSATION; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; DATA DEPENDENT; FILLED PAUSE; LEXICAL FILLER; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; SYNTHETIC VOICES; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT-SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

FILLERS;

EID: 80055093182     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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