Multi-level prosody and spectrum conversion for emotional speech synthesis

International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings, ICSP

Volumn 2015-January, Issue October, 2014, Pages 588-593

  Wang, Zexun ^a   Yu, Yibiao ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Emotion conversion; Emotional speech synthesis; Multi level prosody

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONVERSION METHODS; EMOTION CONVERSION; EMOTIONAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; MULTILEVELS; OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; PROSODIC FEATURES; SPECTRUM CONVERSION;

SPEECH;

EID: 84988295463     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICOSP.2014.7015072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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