CRTI - Centre de Recherche en Technologie de l'Information
Disciplines :
Library & information sciences
Author, co-author :
Urbain, Jérôme ; Université de Mons > Faculté Polytechnique > Information, Signal et Intelligence artificielle
Cakmak, Huseyin ; Université de Mons > Faculté Polytechnique > Information, Signal et Intelligence artificielle
Dutoit, Thierry ; Université de Mons > Faculté Polytechnique > Information, Signal et Intelligence artificielle
Language :
English
Title :
Automatic Phonetic Transcription of Laughter and its Application to Laughter Synthesis
Publication date :
03 September 2013
Event name :
Fifth biannual Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
Event place :
Genève, Switzerland
Event date :
2013
Research unit :
F105 - Information, Signal et Intelligence artificielle
Research institute :
R300 - Institut de Recherche en Technologies de l'Information et Sciences de l'Informatique R450 - Institut NUMEDIART pour les Technologies des Arts Numériques
Commentary :
This publication received the best student paper award
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