Symbolic vs. acoustics-based style control for expressive unit selection

7th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 114-119

  Steiner, Ingmar ^a,b   Schröder, Marc ^a   Charfuelan, Marcela ^a   Klepp, Annette ^a,b  

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

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

acoustic target cost; expressive speech synthesis; style control; unit selection; voice quality

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC TARGET COST; ACOUSTIC TARGETS; COST TARGETS; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SELECTION TECHNIQUES; STYLE CONTROL; TARGET COST; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT-SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VOICE QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84883382307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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