Data-driven emotion conversion in spoken English

Z Inanoglu, S Young - Speech Communication, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper describes an emotion conversion system that combines independent parameter
transformation techniques to endow a neutral utterance with a desired target emotion. A set …

A review of paralinguistic information processing for natural speech communication

Y Yamashita - Acoustical Science and Technology, 2013 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Speech conveys not only linguistic information but also supplemental information that is not
inferable from written language, such as attitude, speaking style, intention, emotion, mental …

Evaluation of expressive speech synthesis with voice conversion and copy resynthesis techniques

O Turk, M Schroder - IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Generating expressive synthetic voices requires carefully designed databases that contain
sufficient amount of expressive speech material. This paper investigates voice conversion …

Analysis of linguistic and prosodic features of bilingual Arabic–English speakers for speech emotion recognition

L Abdel-Hamid, NH Shaker, I Emara - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speech emotion recognition (SER) research has usually focused on the analysis of the
native language of speakers, most commonly, targeting European and Asian languages. In …

[图书][B] Handling emotions in human-computer dialogues

J Pittermann, A Pittermann, W Minker - 2010 - Springer
During the past years the “mystery” of emotions has increasingly attracted interest in
research on human–computer interaction. In this work we investigate the problem of how to …

[PDF][PDF] A system for transforming the emotion in speech: combining data-driven conversion techniques for prosody and voice quality.

Z Inanoglu, SJ Young - INTERSPEECH, 2007 - svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk
This paper describes a system that combines independent transformation techniques to
endow a neutral utterance with some required target emotion. The system consists of three …

A cloud robotics approach towards dialogue-oriented robot speech

K Sugiura, Y Shiga, H Kawai, T Misu, C Hori - Advanced Robotics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Robot utterances generally sound monotonous, unnatural and unfriendly because their Text-
to-Speech systems are not optimized for communication but for text reading. Here, we …

System and method for singing synthesis capable of reflecting voice timbre changes

T Nakano, M Goto - US Patent 9,009,052, 2015 - Google Patents
2013-01-17 Assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY reassignment NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL …

An intuitive style control technique in HMM-based expressive speech synthesis using subjective style intensity and multiple-regression global variance model

T Nose, T Kobayashi - Speech Communication, 2013 - Elsevier
To control intuitively the intensities of emotional expressions and speaking styles for
synthetic speech, we introduce subjective style intensities and multiple-regression global …

Synthesis of F0 contours using generation process model parameters predicted from unlabeled corpora: Application to emotional speech synthesis

K Hirose, K Sato, Y Asano, N Minematsu - Speech communication, 2005 - Elsevier
A corpus-based method of generating fundamental frequency (F0) contours from text was
developed for Japanese. Instead of directly predicting F0 values, the method predicts …