Towards synthesising expressive speech; Designing and collecting expressive speech data

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1637-1640

  Campbell, Nick ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CORPUS-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; HUMAN SPEECH; SPOKEN INTERACTION; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009207979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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