@InProceedings{Burkhardt2018_427,
author = {Felix Burkhardt and Alexandra Steinhilber and Benjamin Weiss},
booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2018},
title = {Ironic Speech - Evaluating Acoustic Correlates by Means of Speech Synthesis},
year = {2018},
editor = {André Berton and Udo Haiber and Wolfgang Minker},
month = mar,
pages = {342--350},
publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
abstract = {We describe an approach to evaluate the acoustic correlates of ironic
speech by means of speech synthesis. We manually extracted specific acoustic
strategies to generate an ironic expression and synthesized them with a speech syn-
thesizer with the aim to evaluate the perceptual relevance of these strategies. We
specifically investigated four distinguished rules: exaggerated articulation, over-
stressing the main focus-syllable, raising the pitch at the end and speaking with
extremely low arousal. The perceptual relevance of the modifications were tested
with a web-based listening experiment with 63 native German listeners. All four
strategies of prosodically signaling irony by synthesis resulted in a preference over
the default version.},
isbn = {978-3-959081-28-3},
issn = {0940-6832},
keywords = {Speech Synthesis},
url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/pdf/2018_342_350.pdf},
}