Modeling and synthesizing emotional speech for catalan text-to-speech synthesis

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3068, Issue , 2004, Pages 197-208

  Iriondo, Ignasi ^a   Alias, Francesc ^a   Melenchon, Javier ^a   Angeles Llorca, M ^a  

^a La Salle Ramon Llull University   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELASTICITY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH; DIPHONE CONCATENATION; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; EMOTIONAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS; EXPRESSIVE SYNTHESIS; PERCEPTUAL TEST; PROSODIC MODELING; TTS SYSTEMS;

SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CATALAN TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH; VOICE QUALITY PARAMETERS;

EID: 9444255201     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24842-2_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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