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
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