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This paper presents the results of the analysis of a set prosodic parameters considered relevant for the expression of emotion in Spanish on a corpus of read aloud chat messages, and explores the application of the obtained results to generate emotional synthetic speech using a novel parametric approach. The obtained results show that the analysed parameters seem to be relevant for the differentiation among the considered emotions, but that its use in parametric synthesis does not offer yet the desired quality level, although better in any case than using corpus-based techniques.
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Laplaza, Y., Garrido, J.M. (2014). Analysis and Synthesis of Emotional Speech in Spanish for the Chat Domain. In: Navarro Mesa, J.L., et al. Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8854. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13623-3_1
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