How (Not) to add laughter to synthetic speech

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3068, Issue , 2004, Pages 229-232

  Trouvain, Jurgen ^a,b   Schroder, Marc ^c  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Phonetik Büro Trouvain   (Germany)

^c GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

DIPHONES; HUMAN-HUMAN COMMUNICATION; SPEECH-LAUGHS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EMOTION EXPRESSION; GENERATION METHOD; PILOT STUDIES; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

EID: 9444257579     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24842-2_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. Schröder, M.: Speech and Emotion Research. An Overview of Research Frameworks and a Dimensional Approach to Emotional Speech Synthesis. PhD thesis, Saarland University, Saarbrücken (to appear).
2. Schröder, M.: Experimental Study of Affect Bursts. Speech Communic., 40 (2003) 99-116
3. Trouvain, J.: Phonetic Methods in Laughter Research (in preparation)
4. Krenn, B., Pirker, H., Grice, M., Piwek, P., van Deemter, K., Schröder, M., Klesen, M., Gstrein, E.: Generation of Multimodal Dialogue for Net Environments. Proc. Konvens, Saarbrücken, Germany (2002)
5. Bachorowski, J.-A. & Owren, M.J.: Not All Laughs Are Alike: Voiced but not Unvoiced Laughter Readily Elicits Positive Affect. Psychological Science 12 (2001) 252-257
6. Trouvain, J.: Segmenting Phonetic Units in Laughter. Proc. 15th International Conference of the Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain (2003) 2793-2796
7. Trouvain, J.: Phonetic Aspects of "Speech-Laughs". Proceedings Conference on Orality & Gestuality (ORAGE), Aix-en-Provence, France (2001) 634-639.
8. Provine, R.: Laughter. A Scientific Investigation. Faber & Faber, London (2001)
9. Apte, M.L.: Humor and Laughter. An Anthropological Approach. Cornell UP, Ithaca (1985)
10. Schröder, M. & Trouvain, J.: The German Text-to-Speech Synthesis System MARY. International Journal of Speech Technology 6 (2003) 365-377
11. Schröder, M. & Grice, M.: Expressing Vocal Effort in Concatenative Synthesis. Proc. 15th International Conference of the Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain (2003) 2589-2592
12. Gong, L. & Lai, J.: To Mix or Not to Mix Synthetic Speech and Human Speech? Contrasting Impact on Judge-Rated Task Performance versus Self-Rated Performance and At-titudinal Responses. International Journal of Speech Technology 6 (2003) 123-131