Validation of an Expressive Speech Corpus by Mapping Automatic Classification to Subjective Evaluation

Iriondo, Ignasi; Planet, Santiago; Álías, Francesc; Socoró, Joan-Claudi; Martínez, Elisa

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“…As described in Iriondo et al (2007a), an initial experiment was conducted considering the dataset Data2-LC (see Section 4.2) since it achieved quite good results (96.58%±1.14) with only 68 attributes out of 464 from the original dataset. This dataset only contains prosodic features that were sufficient to get excellent results in an objective emotion recognition experiment.…”

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Automatic refinement of an expressive speech corpus assembling subjective perception and automatic classification

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Speech Communication

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tomatic refinement of an expressive speech corpus assembling subjective perception and automatic classification. Speech Communication, Elsevier : North-Holland, 2009, 51 (9) This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT AbstractThis paper presents an automatic system able to enhance expressiveness in speech corpora recorded from acted or stimulated speech. The system is trained with the results of a subjective evaluation carried out on a reduced set of the original corpus. Once the system has been trained, it is able to check the complete corpus and perform an automatic pruning of the unclear utterances, i.e. with expressive styles which are different from the intended corpus. The content which most closely matches the subjective classification remains in the resulting corpus. An expressive speech corpus in Spanish, designed and recorded for speech synthesis purposes, has been used to test the presented proposal. The automatic refinement has been applied to the whole corpus and the result has been validated with a second subjective test.

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