Perceptual Annotation of Expressive Speech

6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 46-51

  Wang, Lijuan ^a   Chu, Min ^a   Peng, Yaya ^b   Zhao, Yong ^a   Soong, Frank ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION TREES; EXPRESSIVE-SPEECH; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LABEL SETS; LABELINGS; PERCEPTUAL DISTANCE; REGRESSION TREES; SPEAKING RATE; SPEAKING STYLES; VOCAL EFFORTS;

EID: 84885723535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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