Expressive speech synthesis using a concatenative synthesizer

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1265-1268

  Bulut, Murtaza ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth S ^a   Syrdal, Ann K ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS; DIPHONES; EMOTIONAL STATE; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; LISTENING TESTS; NOCV2; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SYNTHETIC TESTS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85009247888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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