Emotional speech conversion based on spectrum-prosody dual transformation

International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings, ICSP

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 531-535

  Li, Bingjie ^a   Xiao, Zhongzhe ^a   Shen, Yan ^a   Zhou, Qiang ^a   Tao, Zhi ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Emotional speech conversion; GMM; Prosody rules

Indexed keywords

DUAL TRANSFORMATION; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GMM; PROSODIC FEATURES; PROSODY RULES; SPEECH DATABASE; SPEECH EMOTIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84876489382     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICoSP.2012.6491543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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