Emotion transplantation through adaptation in HMM-based speech synthesis ?
We propose an emotion transplantation method based on adaptation techniques. Emotions can be imbued into neutral synthetic speech models regardless of gender. Five perceptual evaluations, including one with a robot, were carried out. Emotion transplantation clearly improves emotional performance over neutral voices. High quality source models provide high quality transplanted models.
emotion transplantation statistical parametric speech synthesis expressive speech synthesis cascade adaptation