Synthesis of listener vocalisations with imposed intonation contours

7th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 240-245

  Pammi, Sathish ^a   Schröder, Marc ^a   Charfuelan, Marcela ^a   Türk, Oytun ^b   Steiner, Ingmar ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b Sensory Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

FD PSOLA; HNM; listener vocalisations; MLSA Vocoding; pitch modification

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABILITY; ACOUSTICS PROPERTY; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; DATA COLLECTION; FD-PSOLA; HNM; LISTENER VOCALIZATION; MLSA VOCODING; PITCH MODIFICATION; RESEARCH AREAS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 85041183849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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