Modeling and Synthesizing Emotional Speech for Catalan Text-to-Speech Synthesis

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Title:	Modeling and Synthesizing Emotional Speech for Catalan Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Author:	Iriondo, Ignasi Alías-Pujol, Francesc Melenchón, Javier Llorca, M. Angeles
Citation:	Iriondo, I. [Ignasi], Alías, F. [Francesc], Melenchón, J. [Javier] & Llorca, M. A. [M. Angeles]. (2004). Modeling and Synthesizing Emotional Speech for Catalan Text-to-Speech Synthesis. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 3068/1, pp. 197 - 208. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-24842-2_20
Abstract:	This paper describes an initial approach to emotional speech synthesis in Catalan based on a diphone concatenation TTS system. The main goal of this work is to develop a simple prosodic model for expressive synthesis. This model is obtained from an emotional speech collection artificially generated by means of a copy-prosody experiment. After validating the emotional content of this collection, the model was automated and incorporated into our TTS system. Finally, the automatic speech synthesis system has been evaluated by means of a perceptual test, obtaining encouraging results.
Keywords:	speech synthesis speech communication emotional speech synthetic speech perceptual test
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24842-2_20
Document type:	info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
Version:	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Issue Date:	1-Oct-2004
Publication license:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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