Can We Generate Emotional Pronunciations for Expressive Speech Synthesis?
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عنوان ژورنال: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1949-3045,2371-9850
DOI: 10.1109/taffc.2018.2828429