Generating expressive speech for storytelling applications

Work on expressive speech synthesis has long focused on the expression of basic emotions. In recent years, however, interest in other expressive styles has been increasing. The research presented in this paper aims at the generation of a storytelling speaking style, which is suitable for storytellin...

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Veröffentlicht in:	IEEE transactions on audio, speech, and language processing speech, and language processing, 2006-07, Vol.14 (4), p.1137-1144
Hauptverfasser:	Theune, M., Meijs, K., Heylen, D., Ordelman, R.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Application software Child-directed speech Children Converting Emotions expressive prosody expressive speech Human Humans Intelligent agent Natural language processing Natural languages Performance analysis Speech Speech analysis Speech processing Speech recognition Speech synthesis
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Zusammenfassung:	Work on expressive speech synthesis has long focused on the expression of basic emotions. In recent years, however, interest in other expressive styles has been increasing. The research presented in this paper aims at the generation of a storytelling speaking style, which is suitable for storytelling applications and more in general, for applications aimed at children. Based on an analysis of human storytellers' speech, we designed and implemented a set of prosodic rules for converting "neutral" speech, as produced by a text-to-speech system, into storytelling speech. An evaluation of our storytelling speech generation system showed encouraging results
ISSN:	1558-7916 2329-9290 1558-7924 2329-9304
DOI:	10.1109/TASL.2006.876129