Synthetic F0 can effectively convey speaker ID in delexicalized speech

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 434-437

  Morley, Eric ^a   Klabbers, Esther ^a   Van Santen, Jan ^a   Kain, Alexander ^a   Mohammadi, Seyed Hamidreza ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

F0; Prosody; Recombinant synthesis; Speaker identity; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

CORPUS-BASED; LINEAR ALIGNMENTS; PROSODY; SPEAKER ID; SPEAKER IDENTITY;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84878384415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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