Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesComparative Evaluation of Phone Duration Models for Greek Emotional SpeechAlexandros Lazaridis, Vasiliki Bourna, Nikos FakotakisProblem statement: In this study we cope with the task of phone duration modeling for Greek emotional speech synthesis. Approach: Various well established machine learning techniques are applied for this purpose to an emotional speech database consisting of five archetypal emotions. The constructed phone duration prediction models are built on phonetic, morphosyntactic and prosodic features that can be extracted only … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 3 · 31 Mar 2010 · 7,065 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesComparison of Speech Features on the Speech Recognition TaskIosif Mporas, Todor Ganchev, Mihalis Siafarikas, Nikos FakotakisIn the present work we overview some recently proposed discrete Fourier transform (DFT)- and discrete wavelet packet transform (DWPT)-based speech parameterization methods and evaluate their performance on the speech recognition task. Specifically, in order to assess the practical value of these less studied speech parameterization methods, we evaluate them in a common experimental setup and compare their performance against traditional … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 3, Issue 8 · 31 Dec 2007 · 7,117 accessesView PDFCite