The PAVOQUE corpus as a resource for analysis and synthesis of expressive speech

The nature of expressive and emotional speech has garnered a mounting body of research over the past decade (Scherer, 2003; Schröder, 2009; Schuller et al., 2011, among many others);

The procedure we use in MARY TTS to create expres- sive voices, using an expressive or emotion label, is general enough to be used with explicitly recorded data in expressive

tempt to identify relevant categories of meaning for lis- tener vocalizations in a German dialog corpus, which was recorded in view of interactive speech synthesis as a long-

Back­channel vocalizations play an important role in communicating listener intentions while the other person has 

The above points can be assessed in the perspective of expression transformation: property 1 is important if one wishes to linearly de-couple the voice quality, related to

However, the general lack of information on user expectations poses a huge difficulty for TTS evaluations: if we want to come up with a diagnostic evaluation of our TTS voice that

Four emotive text materials (shown in Table 12) were newly prepared (two sentences expressing anger and two expressing joy), and these were synthesized using all four source

An August 21, 1932, review of he Conjure- Man Dies in the Long Island Daily Press proposed that “here was another piece of lively art, a work bound up with racial feeling and