EMOTIONAL SPEECH GENERATING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING EMOTIONAL INTENSITY

An emotional speech generating method and apparatus capable of adjusting an emotional intensity is disclosed. The emotional speech generating method includes generating emotion groups by grouping weight vectors representing a same emotion into a same emotion group, determining an internal distance between weight vectors included in a same emotion group, determining an external distance between weight vectors included in a same emotion group and weight vectors included in another emotion group, determining a representative weight vector of each of the emotion groups based on the internal distance and the external distance, generating a style embedding by applying the representative weight vector of each of the emotion groups to a style token including prosodic information for expressing an emotion, and generating an emotional speech expressing the emotion using the style embedding.