Abstract
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.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Chaloupka, Z., Horák, P.: Prosody Modelling Possibilities of the Czech Emotional Speech. In: Proceedings of 19th Czech-German Workshop Speech Processing, Prague, pp. 114–117 (2009)
Vlčková-Mejvaldová, J., Horák, P.: Prosodic Parameters of Emotional Synthetic Speech in Czech: Perception Validation. In: Travieso-González, C.M., Alonso-Hernández, J.B. (eds.) NOLISP 2011. LNCS (LNAI), vol. 7015, pp. 170–176. Springer, Heidelberg (2011)
Dohalská, M., Mejvaldová, J., Duběda, T.: Prosodic Parameters of Synthetic Czech: Can We Manage without Duration and Intensity? In: Keller, E., Bailly, G., et al. (eds.) Improvements in Speech Synthesis, pp. 29–133. Wiley & Sons, Chichester (2001)
Hanika, J., Horák, P.: Epos – A New Approach to the Speech Synthesis. In: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Text, Speech and Dialogue – TSD 1998, Brno, Czech Republic, September 23-26, pp. 51–54 (1998)
Hanika, J., Horák, P.: Dependences and Independences of Text-to-Speech. In: Palková, Z., Wodarz, H.-W. (eds.) Forum Phoneticum 70. Frankfurt am Main, pp. 27–40. Hector Verlag (2000)
Epos system documentation, http://epos.ufe.cz/
Horák, P., Hesounová, A.: Czech Triphone Synthesis of Female Voice. In: Speech processing. In: Proceedings of 11th Czech-German Workshop, Prague, pp. 32–33 (2001)
Vlčková-Mejvaldová, J.: Prozodie, cesta a mříž porozumění. Praha, Karolinum (2006)
Praat software, www.praat.org
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Vlčková-Mejvaldová, J., Horák, P. (2012). Czech Emotional Prosody in the Mirror of Speech Synthesis. In: Esposito, A., Esposito, A.M., Vinciarelli, A., Hoffmann, R., Müller, V.C. (eds) Cognitive Behavioural Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7403. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34584-5_18
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34584-5_18
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-34583-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-34584-5
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)