Memorias de investigación
Ponencias en congresos:
eXTRA: A Culturally Enriched Malay Text to Speech System
Año:2008
Áreas de investigación
  • Inteligencia artificial,
  • Industria electrónica
Datos
Descripción
This paper concerns the incorporation of naturalness into Malay Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems through the addition of a culturally-localized affective component. Previous studies on emotion theories were examined to draw up assumptions about emotions. These studies also include the findings from observations by anthropologists and researchers on cultural specific emotions, particularly, the Malay culture. These findings were used to elicit the requirements for modeling affect in the TTS that conforms to the people of the Malay culture in Malaysia. The goal is to introduce a novel method for generating Malay expressive speech by embedding a localized ¿emotion layer¿ called eXpressive Text Reader Automation Layer, abbreviated as eXTRA. In a pilot project, the prototype is used with Fasih, the first Malay Text-to-Speech system developed by MIMOS Berhad, which can read unrestricted Malay text in four emotions: anger, sadness, happiness and fear. In this paper however, concentration is given to the first two emotions. eXTRA is evaluated through open perception tests by both native and non-native listeners. The results show more than sixty percent of recognition rate, which confirmed the satisfactory performance of the approaches.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
AISB 2008 Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Aberdeen, Scotland
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
1-902956-61-3
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
01/04/2008
Fecha fin congreso
02/04/2008
Desde la página
77
Hasta la página
83
Título de las actas
Proceedings of the AISB 2008 Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine
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Participantes
  • Participante: Zuraida M. Don Faculty of Language and Linguistics, University Malaya
  • Autor: Juan Manuel Montero Martinez UPM
  • Participante: Raja N. Ainon Language Engineering Lab, University Malaya
  • Autor: Syaheerah Binti Lebai Lutfi UPM
Grupos de investigación, Departamentos, Centros e Institutos de I+D+i relacionados
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de Tecnología del Habla
  • Departamento: Ingeniería Electrónica