Speaker and language independent voice quality classification applied to unlabelled corpora of expressive speech

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7982-7986

  Kane, John ^a   Scherer, Stefan ^b   Aylett, Matthew ^c   Morency, Louis Philippe ^b   Gobl, Christer ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

audiobooks; expressive speech; glottal source; speech synthesis; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

AUDIOBOOKS; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; FUZZY-INPUT FUZZY-OUTPUT SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; GLOTTAL SOURCE; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY; VOICE QUALITY;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84890470090     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639219     Document Type: Conference Paper

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