DEVELOPMENT OF AN EMOTIONAL SPEECH SYNTHESISER IN SPANISH

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 2099-2102

  Montero, J M ^a   Gutierrez Arriola J ^a   Colas J ^a   Macias J ^a   Enriquez E ^b   Pardo, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

concatenative synthesis; copy synthesis; emotional speech; emotions

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CONCATENATIVE-SYNTHESIS; COPY-SYNTHESIS; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; EMOTIONAL STATE; ESSENTIAL POINT; HUMAN SPEECH; PROSODICS; RULE BASED; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85135262888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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