Expressive speech synthesis: Past, present, and possible futures

Affective Information Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 111-126

  Schröder, Marc ^a  

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

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84800-306-4_7     Document Type: Chapter

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