Spoken Language Generation Project II Synthesizing Emotional Speech in Fairy Tales

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Spoken Language GenerationProject
IISynthesizing Emotional Speech in Fairy Tales
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Overview

• Goal Synthesize emotional speech in fairy tales
• Tasks
• Find fairy tales and annotate speakers and
  emotions
• Create voices
• Create emotions
• Combine voices and emotions

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Annotation

• EMOTION, SPEAKER
• SABLE markup emotion tags

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Voices

• Basic SABLE tags
• Age and species tags
• Modify characteristics automatically based on
  values
• Evaluate the voices
• Tested on group 2 members

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Emotions

• Four basic emotions
• Neutral
• Angry
• Happy
• Sad

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Combining voices and emotions

• Two approaches
• Use emotion tags
• On-the-fly

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