While it is clear that artificial agents that are able to express emotions increase trust in
Human–Machine Interaction, most studies looking at this effect concentrated on the …

In this paper, we present a database of emotional speech intended to be open-sourced and
used for synthesis and generation purpose. It contains data for male and female actors in …

We know there is something special about speech. Our voices are not just a means of
communicating. They also give a deep impression of who we are and what we might know …

Research in affective computing and cognitive science has shown the importance of
emotional facial and vocal expressions during human-computer and human-human …

In this paper we present the AmuS database of about three hours worth of data related to
amused speech recorded from two males and one female subjects and contains data in two …

In this paper, we review the datasets of emotional speech publicly available and their
usability for state of the art speech synthesis. This is conditioned by several characteristics of …

Laughter is one of the most famous non verbal sounds that human produce since birth, it
conveys messages about our emotional state. These characteristics make it an important …

Smiling during speech production has been shown to result in perceptible acoustic
differences compared to non-smiling speech. However, there is a scarcity of research on the …

In this perspective paper we explore the question how audible smiling can be integrated in
speech synthesis applications. In human-human communication, smiling can serve various …

This paper provides a short summary of the importance of taking into account laughter and
smile expressions in Human-Computer Interaction systems. Based on the literature, we …