Stylization and trajectory modelling of short and long term speech prosody variations

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2029-2032

  Obin, Nicolas ^a,b   Lacheret, Anne ^b   Rodet, Xavier ^a  

^a IRCAM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Speech prosody; Speech synthesis; Stylization; Trajectory model

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT DEPENDENT; LONG-TERM VARIATIONS; SPEECH PROSODY; STYLIZATION; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; TEMPORAL DOMAIN; TRAJECTORY MODELS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 84865714286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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