Transformation of lf parameters for speech synthesis of emotion: Regression trees

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 705-708

  Tooher, Michelle ^a   Yanushevskaya, Irena ^a   Gobl, Christer ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; EMOTION SYNTHESIS; INVERSE FILTERING; LISTENING TESTS; PARAMETRIC SYNTHESIS; REGRESSION TREES; SOURCE MODELING; VOICE SOURCES;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84902669930     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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