Acoustic and linguistic speech features are used for emotional state estimation of utterances collected within the Croatian emotional speech corpus. Analyses are performed for the classification of 5 discrete emotions, i.e. happiness, sadness, fear, anger and neutral state, as well as for the estimation of two emotional dimensions: valence and arousal. Acoustic and linguistic cues of emotional ...

BACKGROUND Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in the cognitive processing of emotions (cognitive dimension) and in the experience of emotions (affective dimension). Previous research focused mainly on visual emotional processing in the cognitive alexithymia dimension. We investigated the impact of both alexithymia dimensions on electrophysiological responses to emo...

This paper presents an evaluation of the acted part of an audio-visual corpus of emotional speech. This corpus is intended to collect both spontaneous and acted emotions, and then the perceptive efficiency of stimuli to carry emotional expression has to be rated. The evaluation of acted speech is presented here, and will give us a scale to measure the spontaneous expressions.

In this paper, we explore two sides to expressive speech synthesis. The first is the identification and simulation of different speakers, the second is the synthesis of emotional speech. The two are then combined, generating expressive characters that provide emotional spoken language. All of this is done within the context of fairy tales, as this is expected to be a particularly suited domain.

This paper discusses an emotional prosody generator for a Malay speech synthesis system that can re-synthesize the selected vocal emotion from neutral synthesized speech output and improve the naturalness by adopting rulebased prosody conversion techniques. The role of prosodic features in emotional expression, particularly fundamental frequency and duration, has been widely investigated in sev...