Emotional Speech Synthesis: Applications, History and possible Future

Authors: Felix Burkhardt, Joachim Stegmann

Abstract:

Emotional speech synthesis is an important part of the puzzle on the long way to human-like artificial human-machine interaction. During the way, lots of stations like emotional audio messages or believable characters in gaming will be reached. This paper discusses technical aspects of emotional speech synthesis, shows practical applications based on a higher level framework and highlights new developments concerning the realization of affective speech with non-uniform unit selection based synthesis and voice transformation techniques.