Study on emotional speech features in korean with its application to voice conversion

Authors:
Sang-Jin Kim;Kwang-Ki Kim;Hyun Bae Han;Minsoo Hahn
Affiliations:
Speech and Audio Info. Lab., Information and Communications Univ., Korea;Speech and Audio Info. Lab., Information and Communications Univ., Korea;International Network Planning & Management Team, Network Group, KT, Korea;Speech and Audio Info. Lab., Information and Communications Univ., Korea
Venue:
ACII'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Recent researches in speech synthesis are mainly focused on naturalness, and the emotional speech synthesis becomes one of the highlighted research topics. Although quite a many studies on emotional speech in English or Japanese have been addressed, the studies in Korean can seldom be found. This paper presents an analysis of emotional speech in Korean. Emotional speech features related to human speech prosody, such as F0, the duration, and the amplitude with their variations, are exploited. Their attribution to three different types of typical human speech is tried to be quantified and modeled. By utilizing the analysis results, emotional voice conversion from the neutral speech to the emotional one is also performed and tested.