Title :
Adding emotional factors to synthesized voices
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Sci. Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
fDate :
29 Sep-1 Oct 1997
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.1997.647009