Automatic Speech for Poetry - The Voice behind the Experience
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This paper presents the advances in expressive speech for the interactive installation The Muses of Poetry, as well as the results of an evaluation to assess the interaction and emotional experience of the participants. The objective of the installation is to bring poetry closer to a wider audience through the use of animated characters who not only read poetry, but also manifest the emotional content of the poems. The latter is done using facial expressions and affective speech, which is the focus of this paper. The results of the evaluation show that in general the installation was pleasant and appealing. Also, the three characters managed to convey emotions and awake emotions in the users.
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