Analysis on the importance of short-term speech parameterizations for emotional statistical parametric speech synthesis

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1630-1633

  Maia, Ranniery ^a   Akamine, Masami ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Expressive speech synthesis; Speech synthesis; Statistical parametric speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; EMOTION CLASSIFICATION; EMOTION IDENTIFICATIONS; EXCITATION PARAMETERS; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMMS); HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL(HMM); STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

GROUP DELAY; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84878387086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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