Engineering

Volume 5, Issue 10 (October 2013)

ISSN Print: 1947-3931   ISSN Online: 1947-394X

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Emotional Speech Synthesis Based on Prosodic Feature Modification

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DOI: 10.4236/eng.2013.510B015    3,254 Downloads   5,362 Views  Citations

ABSTRACT

The synthesis of emotional speech has wide applications in the field of human-computer interaction, medicine, industry and so on. In this work, an emotional speech synthesis system is proposed based on prosodic features modification and Time Domain Pitch Synchronous OverLap Add (TD-PSOLA) waveform concatenative algorithm. The system produces synthesized speech with four types of emotion: angry, happy, sad and bored. The experiment results show that the proposed emotional speech synthesis system achieves a good performance. The produced utterances present clear emotional expression. The subjective test reaches high classification accuracy for different types of synthesized emotional speech utterances.

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He, L. , Huang, H. and Lech, M. (2013) Emotional Speech Synthesis Based on Prosodic Feature Modification. Engineering, 5, 73-77. doi: 10.4236/eng.2013.510B015.

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