Synthesized speech intelligibility and persuasion: Speech rate and non-native listeners
Computer Speech and Language
Application of Expressive Speech in TTS System with Cepstral Description
Verbal and Nonverbal Features of Human-Human and Human-Machine Interaction
Accessibility of board and presentations in the classroom: a design-for-all approach
Telehealth/AT '08 Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Telehealth/Assistive Technologies
Meaningful parameters in emotion characterisation
COST 2102'07 Proceedings of the 2007 COST action 2102 international conference on Verbal and nonverbal communication behaviours
Getting the story right: making computer-generated stories more entertaining
INTETAIN'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment
A fabula model for emergent narrative
TIDSE'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment
Dynamic prosody modification using zero frequency filtered signal
International Journal of Speech Technology
Expressive speech synthesis: a review
International Journal of Speech Technology
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Work on expressive speech synthesis has long focused on the expression of basic emotions. In recent years, however, interest in other expressive styles has been increasing. The research presented in this paper aims at the generation of a storytelling speaking style, which is suitable for storytelling applications and more in general, for applications aimed at children. Based on an analysis of human storytellers' speech, we designed and implemented a set of prosodic rules for converting "neutral" speech, as produced by a text-to-speech system, into storytelling speech. An evaluation of our storytelling speech generation system showed encouraging results