An automatic voice pleasantness classification system based on prosodic and acoustic patterns of voice preference

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2457-2460

  Coelho, Luis ^a,c   Braga, Daniela ^b,c   Sales Dias, Miguel ^b,c   Garcia Mateo, Carmen ^d  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Human voice; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CONTINUED USE; ERROR RATE; HUMAN VOICE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SPEECH-BASED INTERFACES; USER EXPERIENCE;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84865798732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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