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Synthesizing expressive speech from amateur audiobook recordings
2012
2012 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)
Freely available audiobooks are a rich resource of expressive speech recordings that can be used for the purposes of speech synthesis. Natural sounding, expressive synthetic voices have previously been built from audiobooks that contained large amounts of highly expressive speech recorded from a professionally trained speaker. The majority of freely available audiobooks, however, are read by amateur speakers, are shorter and contain less expressive (less emphatic, less emotional, etc.) speech
doi:10.1109/slt.2012.6424239
dblp:conf/slt/SzekelyCTMC12
fatcat:azt7eqymqrh3hovvytnuxsh7cm