Toward a Rule-Based Synthesis of Vietnamese Emotional Speech

Ngo, Thi Duyen; Akagi, Masato

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11680-8_11

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“…Results of perceptual tests showed that emotional styles were well recognized. More detailed information about the work in [8] will be described in the following.…”

Section: A Vietnamese Emotional Speech Synthesis (Vess) Modulementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The talking face is built based on the two systems that we have proposed before [8] [9]. An overview of the face's architecture can be seen in Figure 1.…”

Section: System Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The VESS module uses our proposed work [8] to convert Vietnamese neutral speech to Vietnamese emotional speech according to the corresponding emotional style. The module takes Vietnamese neutral speech with a corresponding phoneme list as input and results Vietnamese emotional speech as output.…”

Section: A Vietnamese Emotional Speech Synthesis (Vess) Modulementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The module takes Vietnamese neutral speech with a corresponding phoneme list as input and results Vietnamese emotional speech as output. In [8], we presented a framework used to simulate four basic emotional styles of Vietnamese speech, by means of acoustic feature conversion techniques applied to neutral utterances. Results of perceptual tests showed that emotional styles were well recognized.…”

Section: A Vietnamese Emotional Speech Synthesis (Vess) Modulementioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are three main modules in the talking face system: Vietnamese Emotional Speech Synthesis (VESS) module, Emotions to Facial Expressions (EFE) module, and Combination module. The VESS module uses the system in [8] to convert Vietnamese neutral speech to Vietnamese emotional speech according to the corresponding emotional style. EFE module uses the system in [9] to simulate continuous emotional facial expressions from the series of EVS.…”

Section: System Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

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A Vietnamese 3D taking face for embodied conversational agents

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2015

The 2015 IEEE RIVF International Conference on Computing &Amp; Communication Technologies - Research, Innovation, and Vision Fo

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Conversational agents are receiving significant attention from multi-agent and human computer interaction research societies. Many techniques have been developed to enable these agents to behave in a human-like manner. In order to do so, they are simulated with similar communicative channels as humans. Moreover, they are also simulated with emotion and personality. In this work, we focus on issue of expressing emotions for embodied-agents. We present a three dimensional face with ability to speak emotional Vietnamese speech and naturally express emotions while talking. Our face can represent lip movements during emotionally pronouncing Vietnamese words, and at the same time it can show emotional facial expressions while speaking. The face's architecture consists of three parts: Vietnamese Emotional Speech Synthesis module, Emotions to Facial Expressions module, and Combination module which creates lip movements when pronouncing Vietnamese emotional speech and combines these movements with emotional facial expressions. We have tested the face in the football supporter domain in order to confirm its naturalness. The face is simulated as the face of a football supporter agent which experiences emotions and expresses emotional expressions in his voice as well as on his face.

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“…Results of perceptual tests showed that emotional styles were well recognized. More detailed information about the work in [8] will be described in the following.…”

Section: A Vietnamese Emotional Speech Synthesis (Vess) Modulementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The talking face is built based on the two systems that we have proposed before [8] [9]. An overview of the face's architecture can be seen in Figure 1.…”

Section: System Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Vietnamese Emotional Speech Synthesis (Vess) Modulementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Vietnamese Emotional Speech Synthesis (Vess) Modulementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: System Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

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