Acoustic analysis of Czech expressive recordings from a single speaker in terms of various communicative functions

IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 293-298

  Grůber, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; FORMANT FREQUENCY; LISTENING TESTS; SPEAKING STYLES;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84857824083     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPIT.2011.6151576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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