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Improving TTS synthesis for emotional expressivity by a prosodic parameterization of affect based on linguistic analysis

Mostafa Al Masum Shaikh, Antonio Ferreira Rebordao (UGent) and Keikichi Hirose
(2010) International Conference on Speech Prosody, 5th, Proceedings.
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Several experiments have been carried out that revealed weaknesses of the current Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems in their emotional expressivity. Although some TTS systems allow XML-based representations of prosodic and/or phonetic variables, few publications considered, as a pre-processing stage, the use of intelligent text processing to detect affective information that can be used to tailor the parameters needed for emotional expressivity. This paper describes a technique for an automatic prosodic parameterization based on affective clues. This technique recognizes the affective information conveyed in a text and, accordingly to its emotional connotation, assigns appropriate pitch accents and other prosodic parameters by XML-tagging. This pre-processing assists the TTS system to generate synthesized speech that contains emotional clues. The experimental results are encouraging and suggest the possibility of suitable emotional expressivity in speech synthesis.
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speech synthesis, intelligent text processing, prosody, affect sensing

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Shaikh, Mostafa Al Masum, et al. “Improving TTS Synthesis for Emotional Expressivity by a Prosodic Parameterization of Affect Based on Linguistic Analysis.” International Conference on Speech Prosody, 5th, Proceedings, 2010.
APA
Shaikh, M. A. M., Ferreira Rebordao, A., & Hirose, K. (2010). Improving TTS synthesis for emotional expressivity by a prosodic parameterization of affect based on linguistic analysis. International Conference on Speech Prosody, 5th, Proceedings. Presented at the 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody (Speech Prosody 2010), Chicago, IL, USA.
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Shaikh, Mostafa Al Masum, Antonio Ferreira Rebordao, and Keikichi Hirose. 2010. “Improving TTS Synthesis for Emotional Expressivity by a Prosodic Parameterization of Affect Based on Linguistic Analysis.” In International Conference on Speech Prosody, 5th, Proceedings.
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Shaikh, Mostafa Al Masum, Antonio Ferreira Rebordao, and Keikichi Hirose. 2010. “Improving TTS Synthesis for Emotional Expressivity by a Prosodic Parameterization of Affect Based on Linguistic Analysis.” In International Conference on Speech Prosody, 5th, Proceedings.
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Shaikh MAM, Ferreira Rebordao A, Hirose K. Improving TTS synthesis for emotional expressivity by a prosodic parameterization of affect based on linguistic analysis. In: International Conference on Speech Prosody, 5th, Proceedings. 2010.
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M. A. M. Shaikh, A. Ferreira Rebordao, and K. Hirose, “Improving TTS synthesis for emotional expressivity by a prosodic parameterization of affect based on linguistic analysis,” in International Conference on Speech Prosody, 5th, Proceedings, Chicago, IL, USA, 2010.
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  abstract     = {{Several experiments have been carried out that revealed weaknesses of the current Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems in their emotional expressivity. Although some TTS systems allow XML-based representations of prosodic and/or phonetic variables, few publications considered, as a pre-processing stage, the use of intelligent text processing to detect affective information that can be used to tailor the parameters needed for emotional expressivity. This paper describes a technique for an automatic prosodic parameterization based on affective clues. This technique recognizes the affective information conveyed in a text and, accordingly to its emotional connotation, assigns appropriate pitch accents and other prosodic parameters by XML-tagging. This pre-processing assists the TTS system to generate synthesized speech that contains emotional clues. The experimental results are encouraging and suggest the possibility of suitable emotional expressivity in speech synthesis.}},
  author       = {{Shaikh, Mostafa Al Masum and Ferreira Rebordao, Antonio and Hirose, Keikichi}},
  booktitle    = {{International Conference on Speech Prosody, 5th, Proceedings}},
  isbn         = {{9780557519316}},
  keywords     = {{speech synthesis,intelligent text processing,prosody,affect sensing}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  location     = {{Chicago, IL, USA}},
  pages        = {{4}},
  title        = {{Improving TTS synthesis for emotional expressivity by a prosodic parameterization of affect based on linguistic analysis}},
  year         = {{2010}},
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