Expressive speech synthesis: Evaluation of a voice quality centered coder on the different acoustic dimensions

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Audibert, Nicolas ^a   Vincent, Damien ^b   Aubergé, Véronique ^a   Rosec, Olivier ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ARX PARAMETERS; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS; F0 CONTOURS; MULTI DIMENSIONAL; RELATIVE WEIGHTS; RESYNTHESIS; VOICE QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 85089091930     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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