The effects of emotionally worded synthesized speech on the ratings of emotions and voice quality

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6974 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 588-598

  Ilves, Mirja ^a   Surakka, Veikko ^a   Vanhala, Toni ^a,b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Emotions; facial expression; speech synthesis; voice quality

Indexed keywords

CORRUGATOR; EMOTIONAL REACTIONS; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; FACIAL MUSCLES; NEGATIVE SENTENCES; POSITIVE FEELINGS; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; VOICE QUALITY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

INTELLIGENT COMPUTING;

EID: 80054838227     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24600-5_62     Document Type: Conference Paper

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