Emotion Identification for Evaluation of Synthesized Emotional Speech
Steidl S, Polzehl T, Bunnell HT, Dou Y, Muthukumar PK, Perry D, Prahallad KS, Vaughn C, Black AW, Metze F (2012)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution
Publication year: 2012
Original Authors: Steidl Stefan, Polzehl Tim, Bunnell H. Timothy, Dou Ying, Kumar Muthukumar Prasanna, Perry Daniel, Prahallad Kishore, Vaughn Callie, Black Alan W., Metze Florian
Conference Proceedings Title: Proc. Speech Prosody 2012
Event location: Shanghai
URI: http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Forschung/Publikationen/2012/Steidl12-EIF.pdf
Abstract
In this paper, we propose to evaluate the quality of emotional speech synthesis by means of an automatic emotion identification system. We test this approach using five different parametric speech synthesis systems, ranging from plain non-emotional synthesis to full re-synthesis of pre-recorded speech. We compare the results achieved with the automatic system to those of human perception tests. While preliminary, our results indicate that automatic emotion identification can be used to assess the quality of emotional speech synthesis, potentially replacing time consuming and expensive human perception test.
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APA:
Steidl, S., Polzehl, T., Bunnell, H.T., Dou, Y., Muthukumar, P.K., Perry, D.,... Metze, F. (2012). Emotion Identification for Evaluation of Synthesized Emotional Speech. In Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (Eds.), Proc. Speech Prosody 2012. Shanghai, CN.
MLA:
Steidl, Stefan, et al. "Emotion Identification for Evaluation of Synthesized Emotional Speech." Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2012, Shanghai Ed. Speech Prosody Special Interest Group, 2012.
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