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Specifying Affect and Emotion for Expressive Speech Synthesis

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Speech synthesis is not necessarily synonymous with text-to-speech. This paper describes a prototype talking machine that produces synthesised speech from a combination of speaker, language, speaking-style, and content information, using icon-based input. The paper addresses the problems of specifying the text-content and output realisation of a conversational utterance from a combination of conceptual icons, in conjunction with language and speaker information. It concludes that in order to specify the speech content (i.e., both text details and speaking-style) adequately, selection options for speaker-commitment and speaker-listener relations will be required. The paper closes with a description of a constraint-based method for selection of affect-marked speech samples for concatenative speech synthesis.

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    Nick Campbell

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    Alexander Gelbukh

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Campbell, N. (2004). Specifying Affect and Emotion for Expressive Speech Synthesis. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2945. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24630-5_47

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