• DocumentCode
    3451119
  • Title

    Adding emotional factors to synthesized voices

  • Author

    Hara, Fumio

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Mech. Eng., Sci. Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    29 Sep-1 Oct 1997
  • Firstpage
    344
  • Lastpage
    351
  • Abstract
    This paper deals with how to add emotional factors to synthesized voices by applying essentic forms of emotion which reflect the timewise response of muscle reaction to each kind of emotions. We modulate the magnitude and fundamental frequency of given series of voice with no emotional factor by the essentic standard forms obtained by fingertip pressure. Psychological evaluation of these modulated voices shows that anger, sadness, hate and joy are well regenerated by those essentic forms with appropriate multiplication factor but love, reverence and sex are not succeeded to be expressed by this method
  • Keywords
    human factors; modulation; psychology; speech synthesis; anger; emotional factors; essentic forms; fundamental frequency; hate; joy; modulation function; muscle reaction; prosodic emotional voices; psychology; sadness; synthesized voices; Face; Head; Humans; Man machine systems; Mechanical engineering; Muscles; Psychology; Robot kinematics; Robustness; Time factors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robot and Human Communication, 1997. RO-MAN '97. Proceedings., 6th IEEE International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Sendai
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4076-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ROMAN.1997.647009
  • Filename
    647009