Unit Selection and Emotional Speech

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1649-1652

  Black, Alan W ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EMOTIONAL SPEECH; LARGE DATABASE; NATURAL SPEECH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF SPEECH; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES; SYNTHETIC VOICES; UNIT SELECTION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85006631929     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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