Clustering expressive speech styles in audiobooks using glottal source parameters

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2409-2412

  Székely, Éva ^a   Cabral, João P ^a   Cahill, Peter ^a   Carson Berndsen, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Audiobook; Expressive speech; Speech synthesis; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

AUDIOBOOK; CLUSTERING METHODS; DATA SETS; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; GLOTTAL SOURCE; HIGH QUALITY; SELF-ORGANISING FEATURE MAPS; SPEECH DATA; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; VOICE CHARACTERISTICS; VOICE QUALITY;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84865709194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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