A comparison of voice conversion methods for transforming voice quality in emotional speech synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2282-2285

  Türk, Oytun ^a   Schröder, Marc ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotional speech synthesis; Voice conversion; Voice quality transformation

Indexed keywords

CODEBOOKS; COMPARISON OF METHODS; EMOTIONAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LISTENING TESTS; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; UNIT SELECTION; VOICE CONVERSION; VOICE CONVERSION TECHNIQUES; VOICE QUALITY;

MAPPING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84867219635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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