@inproceedings{d52ab6fdb1b54bc5aa7cb71b0062eeda,
title = "Expressive speech style transformation: Voice quality and prosody modification using a harmonic plus noise model",
abstract = "This paper proposes an approach to transform speech from a neutral style into other expressive styles using both prosody and voice quality (VoQ). The main aim is to validate the usefulness of VoQ in the enhancement of expressive synthetic speech. A Harmonic plus Noise Model (HNM) is used to modify speech following a set of rules extracted from an expressive speech corpus with five categories (neutral, happy, sensual, aggressive and sad). Finally, modified speech utterances were used to perform a perceptual test. These results indicate that listeners prefer prosody together with VoQ transformation instead of only prosody modification.",
keywords = "Expressive speech transformation, Harmonic plus Noise Model, Prosody, Voice quality",
author = "Carlos Monzo and {\`A}ngel Calzada and Ignasi Iriondo and Socor{\'o}, {Joan Claudi}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2010 Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody.; 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody: Every Language, Every Style, SP 2010 ; Conference date: 10-05-2010 Through 14-05-2010",
year = "2010",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody",
publisher = "International Speech Communications Association",
booktitle = "5th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2010",
}