TY - GEN
T1 - Communicative F0 generation based on impressions
AU - Shao, Lu
AU - Greenberg, Yoko
AU - Sagisaka, Yoshinori
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/1/23
Y1 - 2014/1/23
N2 - This paper introduces our research efforts of prosody control for so-called paralinguistic information embedded in communicative speech. To specify the output prosody, we employ three-dimensional expressions extracted from 26 impressions using Multi-Dimensional Scaling. Based on a series of our previous studies showing the correlations between impressions and prosody characteristics, we propose an exact computational scheme to obtain communicative F0 using impressions given by input lexicons and the F0 pattern of corresponding reading style speech. Experimental trials have confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed calculation scheme for a set of expressions consisting of lexicons forming impressions. Finally, further advanced problems are discussed to apply the proposed scheme to other expressions.
AB - This paper introduces our research efforts of prosody control for so-called paralinguistic information embedded in communicative speech. To specify the output prosody, we employ three-dimensional expressions extracted from 26 impressions using Multi-Dimensional Scaling. Based on a series of our previous studies showing the correlations between impressions and prosody characteristics, we propose an exact computational scheme to obtain communicative F0 using impressions given by input lexicons and the F0 pattern of corresponding reading style speech. Experimental trials have confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed calculation scheme for a set of expressions consisting of lexicons forming impressions. Finally, further advanced problems are discussed to apply the proposed scheme to other expressions.
KW - Fundamental frequency cotrol
KW - communicative speech synthesis
KW - impression
KW - para-linguistics
KW - speech prosody
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U2 - 10.1109/CogInfoCom.2014.7020429
DO - 10.1109/CogInfoCom.2014.7020429
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84988274600
T3 - 5th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, CogInfoCom 2014 - Proceedings
SP - 115
EP - 119
BT - 5th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, CogInfoCom 2014 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 5th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, CogInfoCom 2014
Y2 - 5 November 2014 through 7 November 2014
ER -