GMM-Based Evaluation of Emotional Style Transformation in Czech and Slovak

Cognitive Computation

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 928-939

  Přibil, Jiří ^a   Přibilová, Anna ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEASUREMENT SCIENCE   (Slovakia)

^b Institute of Electronics and Photonics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Emotional speech transformation; GMM based emotion classification; Spectral and prosodic features of speech

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; EMOTION CLASSIFICATION; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; FEED BACK INFORMATION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMMS); PROSODIC FEATURES; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84916205035     PISSN: 18669956     EISSN: 18669964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12559-014-9283-y     Document Type: Article

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