When compared to human speech, synthesized speech is distinguished by insufficient intelligibility, inappropriate prosody and inadequate expressiveness. These are serious drawbacks for conversational computer systems. Expressiveness, or affect, provides information about the speaker's mental state and intent beyond that revealed by word content. My work explores improvements to the affective component of synthesized speech.
Acoustic realization is, however, used for the expression of emotions.
The Generation of Affect in Synthesized Speech. The Generation of Affect in Synthesized Speech. 11 Synthesis by Rule of English Intonation Patterns - Anderson, Pierrehumbert et al. The graph only includes citing articles where the year of publication is known.