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2006

Emotion

Computer Engineering

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Generation Of High Quality Audio Natural Emotional Speech Corpus Using Task Based Mood Induction, Charlie Cullen, Brian Vaughan, Spyros Kousidis, Yi Wang, Ciaran Mcdonnell, Dermot Campbell Jan 2006

Generation Of High Quality Audio Natural Emotional Speech Corpus Using Task Based Mood Induction, Charlie Cullen, Brian Vaughan, Spyros Kousidis, Yi Wang, Ciaran Mcdonnell, Dermot Campbell

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Detecting emotional dimensions [1] in speech is an area of great research interest, notably as a means of improving human computer interaction in areas such as speech synthesis [2]. In this paper, a method of obtaining high quality emotional audio speech assets is proposed. The methods of obtaining emotional content are subject to considerable debate, with distinctions between acted [3] and natural [4] speech being made based on the grounds of authenticity. Mood Induction Procedures (MIP’s) [5] are often employed to stimulate emotional dimensions in a controlled environment. This paper details experimental procedures based around MIP 4, using performance related …