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This paper presents the validation of the expressiveness of an acted oral corpus produced to be used in speech synthesis. Firstly, an objective validation has been conducted by means of automatic emotion identification techniques using statistical features extracted from the prosodic parameters of speech. Secondly, a listening test has been performed with a subset of utterances. The relationship between both objective and subjective evaluations is analyzed and the obtained conclusions can be useful to improve the following steps related to expressive speech synthesis.
This work has been partially supported by the European Commission, project SALERO FP6 IST-4-027122-IP.
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Iriondo, I., Planet, S., Socoró, JC., Alías, F. (2007). Objective and Subjective Evaluation of an Expressive Speech Corpus. In: Chetouani, M., Hussain, A., Gas, B., Milgram, M., Zarader, JL. (eds) Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing. NOLISP 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4885. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77347-4_5
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