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Modifying spectral envelope to synthetically adjust voice quality and articulation parameters for emotional speech synthesis

  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Both of the prosody and spectral features are important for emotional speech synthesis. Besides prosody effects, voice quality and articulation parameters are the factors that should be considered to modify in emotional speech synthetic systems. Generally, rules and filters are designed to process these parameters respectively. This paper proves that by modifying spectral envelope, the voice quality and articulation could be adjusted as a whole. Thus, it will not need to modify each of the parameter separately depending on rules. Accordingly, it will make the synthetic system more flexible by designing an automatic spectral envelope model based on some machine learning methods. The perception test in this paper also shows that when prosody and spectral features are all modified, the best emotional synthetic speech will be obtained.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAffective Computing and Intelligent Interaction - First International Conference, ACII 2005, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages334-341
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)3540296212, 9783540296218
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2005 - Beijing, China
Duration: 22 Oct 200524 Oct 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3784 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2005
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period22/10/0524/10/05

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