Emotional speech synthesis

Kawanami, H., Iwami, Y., Toda, T., Saruwatarai, H., and Shikano, K. Gmm base voice conversion applied to emotional speech synthesis. In Proceedings of Eurospeech 2003 (2003). 

Turk, 0., Schroder, M., Bozkurt, B., and Arslan, L. Voice quality interploation for emotional speech synthesis. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2005 (2005). 

ZovATO, E., Sandri, S., Quazza, S., and Badino, L. Prosodic analysis of a multistyle corpus in the perspective of emotional speech synthesis. In Proceedings of the Interspeech 2004 (2004). 

We are only in the very early stages of research into emotion in speech in general and speech synthesis in particular. As such much ciurent interest involves database collection and analysis [22], [34], [81], [82], [112], [130] and ways to describe and control emotion [150]. The study of emotion and expression in speech synthesis will certainly grow into a rich and exciting major topic of research. 

The techniques for synthesizing emotion have followed closely the general developments in speech-synthesis algorithms. First-generation techniques include the work by Murray [324] and Calm [79], [80], who used formant synthesisers, and thus were able to vary every parameter of the synthesiser as desired. The experimental paradigm used... 

Tachibana, M., Yamagishi, J., Masuko, T., and Kobayashi, T. Speech synthesis with various emotional expressions and speaking styles by style interpolation and morphing. lEICE Transactions on Information and Systems 2005 E88-D11 (2004), 2484-2491. 

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