Paper Info
Title
F0 Control Characterization By Perceptual Impressions On Speaking Attitudes Using Multiple Dimensional Scaling Analysis
Abstract
Aiming at prosody control for speech synthesis expressing speaking attitudes, F0 shapes were characterized by their perceptual impressions. To directly correlate F0 shapes with perceptual impressions, single word utterances "n" extracted from daily conversations were employed. The analysis showed that speaking attitudes were manifested in the global F0 control of "n" as the differences of their average height (high-low) and dynamic patterns (rise, flat., fall and rise & fall). Next, controlled utterances of "n" were perceptually examined through Multiple Dimensional Scaling analysis to confirm F0 control freedoms found in the analysis. The result showed the three-dimensional structure of a perceptual impression space and factor dependent F0 control characteristics. The positive-negative attitude can be controlled by average F0 height while those of confident-doubtful or allowable-unacceptable are manifested through dynamic F0 patterns. These findings provide new possibilities of systematic F0 control for conversational speech synthesis with speaking attitudes using corpus-based approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415103
2005 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5: SPEECH PROCESSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
art,information science,pattern analysis,information analysis,speech synthesis,attitude control,multidimensional signal processing,data mining
Prosody,Speech synthesis,Shape control,Computer science,Emotion recognition,Pattern analysis,Speech recognition,Perception,Scaling
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1520-6149
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yoko Kokenawa191.16
Minoru Tsuzaki211818.89
Hiroaki Kato33718.25
Yoshinori Sagisaka4550112.31