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Many attempts have been conducted to add emotions to synthesized speech [1]. Few are done for the Arabic language. In the present paper, we introduce a work done to incorporate emotions: anger, joy, sadness, fear and surprise, in an educational Arabic text-to-speech system. After an introduction about emotions, we give a short paragraph of our text-to-speech system, then we discuss our methodology...
This work presents the development of a real-time framework for the research of multimodal feedback of robots/talking agents in the context of Human Robot Interaction (HRI) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). For evaluating the framework, a Multimodal corpus is built (ENTERFACE_STEAD), and a study on the important multimodal features was done for building an active Robot/Agent listener of a storytelling...
E-business systems involve a large number of nonfunctional requirements, such as performance, distribution, reliability, security, scalability, auditing, fail over, fault tolerance, resuming, clustering/load balancing, portability, accessibility, usability, etc. Such requirements increase the complexity of the system, and depending on programmers' experience this may reduce dramatically code quality...
Text-to-speech is a crucial part of many man-machine communication applications, such as phone booking and banking, vocal e-mail, and many other applications. In addition to many other applications concerning impaired persons, such as: reading machines for blinds, talking machines for persons with speech difficulties. However, the main drawback of most speech synthesizers in the talking machines,...
The goal of this paper is to present an emotional audio-visual Text to speech system for the Arabic Language. The system is based on two entities: un emotional audio text to speech system which generates speech depending on the input text and the desired emotion type, and un emotional Visual model which generates the talking heads, by forming the corresponding visemes. The phonemes to visemes mapping,...
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