Czech emotional prosody in the mirror of speech synthesis

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Vlčková-Mejvaldová, J. - Horák, Petr
Czech emotional prosody in the mirror of speech synthesis.
Lecture Notes i nComputer Science. Vol. 7403. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2012, s. 216-224. ISBN 9783642345838. ISSN 0302-9743.
[International Training School on Cognitive Behavioural Systems, COST 2102. Dresden (DE), 21.02.2011-26.02.2011]
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985882
Klíčová slova: emotions * prosody * speech synthesis
Kód oboru RIV: JA - Elektronika a optoelektronika, elektrotechnika

Contemporary speech synthesisers still provide a fairly monotonous and tedious output when used for longer Czech texts. One of the ways how to make these texts more lively is the synthesis of emotionally coloured speech. In the present paper we focus on the modelling of real-speech-based emotions in synthetic speech and the subsequent assessment of emotionally coloured utterances in listening tests with the aim of determining the role that individual prosodic parameters play in the identification of each emotion
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0224615