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Stallo, J. (2000). Simulating emotional speech for a talking head (Master thesis). Australia: School of Computing, Curtin University of Technology. |


SocialCom 2012 workshop on: Exploring Stances in Interactions: Conceptual and Practical Issues in Social Signal Processing Research

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Experiment. Inspired by MurrayArnott1995, implemented prosody rules for emotion expression in Festival. Conducted perception tests: a) following Murray and Arnott, a forced-choice perception test using emotionally neutral and emotional text; b) a preference task in a talking head setting. In the latter, a visually expressive talking head was combined once with standard synthetic speech and once with manually tuned expressive synthetic speech. The version with expressive speech was very clearly preferred.