Emotional Speech Synthesis
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Emotional speech synthesis is an important part of the puzzle on the long way to human-like artificial human-machine interaction. During the way, lots of stations like emotional audio messages or believable characters in gaming will be reached. This chapter discusses technical aspects of emotional speech synthesis, shows practical application and highlights new developments concerning the realization of affective speech with non-uniform unit selection based synthesis and voice transformation techniques. Keywords/keyphrases Speech synthesis, non-uniform unit-selection, hmm synthesis, voice transformation
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