TY - GEN
T1 - Method for collection of acted speech using various situation scripts
AU - Miyajima, Takahiro
AU - Kikuchi, Hideaki
AU - Shirai, Katsuhiko
AU - Okawa, Shigeki
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This study was carried out to improve the quality of acted emotional speech. In the recent paradigm shift in speech collection techniques, methods for the collection of high-quality and spontaneous speech has been strongly focused on. However, such methods involve various constraints: such as the difficulty in controlling utterances and sound quality. Hence, our study daringly focuses on acted speech because of its high operability. In this paper, we propose a new method for speech collection by refining acting scripts. We compared the speech collected using our proposed method and that collected using an imitation of the legacy method that was implemented with traditional basic emotional words. The results show the advantage of our proposed method, i.e., the possibility of the generating high F0 fluctuations in acoustical expressions, which is one of the important features of the expressive speech, while ensuring that there is no decline in the naturalness and other psychological features.
AB - This study was carried out to improve the quality of acted emotional speech. In the recent paradigm shift in speech collection techniques, methods for the collection of high-quality and spontaneous speech has been strongly focused on. However, such methods involve various constraints: such as the difficulty in controlling utterances and sound quality. Hence, our study daringly focuses on acted speech because of its high operability. In this paper, we propose a new method for speech collection by refining acting scripts. We compared the speech collected using our proposed method and that collected using an imitation of the legacy method that was implemented with traditional basic emotional words. The results show the advantage of our proposed method, i.e., the possibility of the generating high F0 fluctuations in acoustical expressions, which is one of the important features of the expressive speech, while ensuring that there is no decline in the naturalness and other psychological features.
KW - Acted Speech
KW - Acting Script
KW - Emotional Speech
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85037350391
T3 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012
SP - 1179
EP - 1182
BT - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012
A2 - Dogan, Mehmet Ugur
A2 - Mariani, Joseph
A2 - Moreno, Asuncion
A2 - Goggi, Sara
A2 - Choukri, Khalid
A2 - Calzolari, Nicoletta
A2 - Odijk, Jan
A2 - Declerck, Thierry
A2 - Maegaard, Bente
A2 - Piperidis, Stelios
A2 - Mazo, Helene
A2 - Hamon, Olivier
PB - European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
T2 - 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012
Y2 - 21 May 2012 through 27 May 2012
ER -