Mark Tatham, Katherine Morton

Expression in Speech

Analysis and Synthesis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Acknowledging that such testing presupposes a comprehensive computational model of speech production, they put forward original proposals for its foundations and show how the relevant data structures may be modelled within its framework. This pioneering book will be of central interest to researchers in linguistics and in speech science, pathology, and technology. It will also be valuable for behavioural and cognitive scientists wanting to know more about this vital and elusive aspect of human behaviour.

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All human speech has expression. It is part of the 'humanness' of speech, and is a quality listeners expect to find. Without expression, speech sounds lifeless and artificial. Remove expression, and what's left is the bare bones of the intended message, but none of the feelings which surround the message. The purpose of this book is to present research examining expressive content in speech with a view to simulating expression in computer speech. Human beings communicate expressively with each other in conversation: now in the computer age there is a perceived need for machines to communicate expressively with humans in dialogue.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 891g
• ISBN-13: 9780199250677
• ISBN-10: 0199250677
• Artikelnr.: 21228149

Autorenporträt

Mark Tatham is Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. He researches the theory of the production and perception of speech within the general theory of linguistics. He has taught phonology, computational modelling, and speech aspects of neuro-psychology at the University of California and the University of Ohio. Katherine Morton is a Fellow in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. She has published research in modelling speech production and perception within the overall framework of human communication, constrained by linguistic theory. She has taught experimental linguistics/phonetics at the University of Cambridge and the University of California.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Expression in Speech
1: Natural Speech
2: Speech Synthesis
3: Expression in Natural Speech
4: Expression in Synthetic Speech
5: The Perception of Expression
2 Transferring Natural Expression to Synthesis
6: The State of the Art
7: Emotion in Speech Synthesis
8: Recent Developments in Synthesis Models
3 Expression and Emotion: The Research
9: The Biology and Psychology Perspectives
10: The Linguistics, Phonology, and Phonetics Perspective
11: The Speech Technology Perspective
12: The Influence of Emotion Studies
4 Development of an Integrated Model of Expression
13: The Beginnings of a Generalized Model of Expression
14: All Speech is Expression Based
15: Expressive Synthesis - The Longer Term
16: An Expression and Prosody Based Model of Speech Production
Conclusion
References