Modelling personality features by changing prosody in synthetic speech

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Trouvain, Jürgen ^a,b   Schmidt, Sarah ^b   Schröder, Marc ^c   Schmitz, Michael ^b   Barry, William J ^b  

^a Phonetik Büro Trouvain   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHONES; PROSODIC FEATURES; PROSODIC PARAMETER; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85089847795     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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