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prototype system demonstrates our latest development on automatic speech recognition, keyword spotting, personalized text-to-speech synthesis and visual speech synthesis. The second demo exhibits a virtual concert with immersive audio effects. Through our virtual auditory technology, wearing simple earphones, listeners are
) specific to emotions and story genres and (iv) synthesis of story speech using mark-up language and prosody modification factors. Keyword and part-of-speech (POS) features are used for story-genre classification and emotion prediction. The prosody modification factors are derived carefully by analyzing the perceptual
In the storyteller speech, pauses plays a significant role in introducing suspense and climax. Pauses are used to emphasize keywords, emotion-salient words and separate the phrases in the utterance. The objective of this work is to predict the position and duration of the pauses in the synthesized speech from the text
An essential step in the generation of expressive speech synthesis is the automatic detection and classification of emotions most likely to be present in textual input. Though increasingly data-driven, emotion analysis still relies on critical expert knowledge in order to isolate the emotional keywords or keysets
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