Method and apparatus for automatic generation of vocal emotion i

Details Method and apparatus for automatic generation of vocal emotion i Method and apparatus for automatic generation of vocal emotion i

1997-02-24

1999-01-12

Dorvil, Richemond

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Synthesis

704266, G10L 500

Patent

active

058600647

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for the automatic application of vocal emotion parameters to text in a text-to-speech system. Predefining vocal parameters for various vocal emotions allows simple selection and application of vocal emotions to text to be output from a text-to-speech system. Further, the present invention is capable of generating vocal emotion with the limited prosodic controls available in a concatenative synthesizer.

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