Intonation conversion from neutral to expressive speech

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2765-2768

  Veaux, Christophe ^a,b   Rodet, Xavier ^a  

^a Analysis Synthesis Team ^*  (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DCT; Expressivity; F0 modeling; GMM; Multi level dynamic features; Prosody conversion

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION METHODS; DCT; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS; DYNAMIC FEATURES; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; EXPRESSIVITY; F0 CONTOURS; F0 MODEL; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GMM; PROSODIC FEATURES; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84865747520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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