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Spoken Language Generation Project II Synthesizing Emotional Speech in Fairy Tales. Overview. Goal: Synthesize emotional speech in fairy tales Tasks: Find fairy tales and annotate speakers and emotions Create voices Create emotions Combine voices and emotions. Annotation.
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Spoken Language GenerationProject IISynthesizing Emotional Speech in Fairy Tales
Overview • Goal: Synthesize emotional speech in fairy tales • Tasks: • Find fairy tales and annotate speakers and emotions • Create voices • Create emotions • Combine voices and emotions
Annotation • [[EMOTION, SPEAKER]] • SABLE markup + emotion tags
Voices • Basic SABLE tags • Age and species tags • Modify characteristics automatically based on values • Evaluate the voices • Tested on group 2 members
Emotions • Four basic emotions: • Neutral • Angry • Happy • Sad
Combining voices and emotions • Two approaches: • Use emotion tags • On-the-fly