Abstract
The paper describes an application concept of an affective communication system for people with disabilities and elderly people, summarizes the universal nature of emotion and its vocal expression, and reports on the work on designing a corpus database of emotional speech for a speech synthesis in the proposed system. Three corpora of emotional speech (joy, anger and sadness) have been designed and tested for the use with CHATR, the concatenated speech synthesis system at ATR. Each text corpus was designed to bring out a speaker's emotion. The result of perceptual experiments was proved to be significant and so was the result of CHATR synthesized speech. This indicates that the subjects successfully identified the emotion types of the synthesized speech from implicit phonetic information and hence this study has proved the validity of using a corpus of emotional speech as a database for the concatenated speech synthesis system.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 3rd Asia Pacific Computer Human Interaction, APCHI 1998 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 266-271 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0818683473, 9780818683473 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1998 Jan 1 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 3rd Asia Pacific Computer Human Interaction, APCHI 1998 - Hayama-machi, Kanagawa, Japan Duration: 1998 Jul 15 → 1998 Jul 17 |
Other
| Other | 3rd Asia Pacific Computer Human Interaction, APCHI 1998 |
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| Country/Territory | Japan |
| City | Hayama-machi, Kanagawa |
| Period | 98/7/15 → 98/7/17 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design