Evaluation of HMM-based laughter synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7835-7839

  Urbain, Jerome ^a   Cakmak, Huseyin ^a   Dutoit, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

evaluation; HMM; Laughter; synthesis

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; EVALUATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMMS); HMM; LAUGHTER; PARAMETRIC SYNTHESIS; STATE OF THE ART; SYNTHESIS MODELS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84890470899     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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