Detecting a targeted voice style in an audiobook using voice quality features

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4593-4596

  Székely, Éva ^a   Kane, John ^b   Scherer, Stefan ^b,c   Gobl, Christer ^b   Carson Berndsen, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

audiobooks; classifier ensemble; expressive speech; fuzzy support vector machines; speech synthesis; voice quality

Indexed keywords

AUDIOBOOKS; CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLES; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; FUZZY SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VOICE QUALITY;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84867584684     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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