Towards expressive prosody generation in TTS for reading aloud applications
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- dc.contributor.author Domínguez Bajo, Mónica
- dc.contributor.author Burga Díaz, Alicia
- dc.contributor.author Farrús, Mireia
- dc.contributor.author Wanner, Leo
- dc.date.accessioned 2018-11-27T15:14:19Z
- dc.date.available 2018-11-27T15:14:19Z
- dc.date.issued 2018
- dc.description Comunicació presentada a: IberSpeech 2018, celebrat a Barcelona del 21 al 23 de novembre de 2018.ca
- dc.description.abstract Conversational technologies that assist elderly people need to adapt to common disabilities in old age. Visual, hearing and even more so cognitive impairments pose serious difficulties for our seniors to handle a standard conversation with a human. Understanding a virtual agent may be ever harder. In this case, communicative strategies are key to adapt the virtual agent to the needs of elderly users. This paper addresses the role of the communicative structure for expressive speech prosody, which is known to be crucial for better speech comprehension. It reports on efforts to improve prosody within a text-to-speech system based on one aspect of the communicative structure, namely thematicity. The work has been implemented as an application in a social virtual agent, KRISTINA, which reads aloud news articles upon request for elderly users in German.en
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- dc.identifier.citation Domínguez M, Burga A, Farrús M, Wanner L. Towards expressive prosody generation in TTS for reading aloud applications. In: IberSpeech 2018; 2018 Nov 21-23; Barcelona, Spain. Baixas, France: ISCA; 2018. p. 40-4. DOI: 10.21437/IberSPEECH.2018-9
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/IberSPEECH.2018-9
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35867
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
- dc.relation.ispartof IberSpeech 2018; 2018 Nov 21-23; Barcelona, Spain. Baixas, France: ISCA; 2018. p. 40-4.
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/645012
- dc.rights © 2018 ISCA
- dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
- dc.subject.keyword Intelligent conversational agentsen
- dc.subject.keyword Geriatric applicationsen
- dc.subject.keyword Communicative structureen
- dc.subject.keyword Thematicityen
- dc.subject.keyword Prosodyen
- dc.subject.keyword Text-to-speechen
- dc.subject.keyword Human-machine interactionen
- dc.title Towards expressive prosody generation in TTS for reading aloud applications
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
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