ACOUSTIC NATURE AND PERCEPTUAL TESTING OF CORPORA OF EMOTIONAL SPEECH

Akemi Iida; Nick Campbell; Soichiro Iga; Fumito Higuchi; Michiaki Yasumura

ACOUSTIC NATURE AND PERCEPTUAL TESTING OF CORPORA OF EMOTIONAL SPEECH

Akemi Iida, Nick Campbell, Soichiro Iga, Fumito Higuchi, Michiaki Yasumura

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This paper proposes three corpora of emotional speech in Japanese that maximize the expression of each emotion (expressing joy, anger, and sadness) for use with CHATR, the concatenative speech synthesis system being developed at ATR. A perceptual experiment was conducted using the synthesized speech generated from each emotion corpus and the results proved to be significantly identifiable. Authors' current work is to identify the local acoustic features relevant for specifying a particular emotion type. F0 and duration showed significant differences among emotion types. AV (amplitude of voicing source) and GN (glottal noise) also showed differences. This paper reports on the corpus design, the perceptual experiment, and the results of the acoustic analysis.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 1998
Externally published	Yes
Event	5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 1998 Nov 30 → 1998 Dec 4

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Conference	5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	98/11/30 → 98/12/4

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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