Spoken Language GenerationProject II

Synthesizing Emotional Speech in Fairy Tales

Overview

Goal: Synthesize emotional speech in fairy tales

Tasks:– Find fairy tales and annotate speakers and

emotions– Create voices– Create emotions– Combine voices and emotions

Annotation

[[EMOTION, SPEAKER]]

SABLE markup + emotion tags

Voices

Basic SABLE tags Age and species tags

– Modify characteristics automatically based on values

Evaluate the voices– Tested on group 2 members

Emotions

Four basic emotions:– Neutral– Angry– Happy– Sad

Combining voices and emotions

Two approaches:– Use emotion tags– On-the-fly