基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2004. The state of the art in computer-generated synthesis of emotional speech to make machines you'll love to talk to.
Full Description
This book is about the nature of expression in speech. It is a comprehensive exploration of how such expression is produced and understood, and of how the emotional content of spoken words may be analysed, modelled, tested, and synthesized. Listeners can interpret tone-of-voice, assess emotional pitch, and effortlessly detect the finest modulations of speaker attitude; yet these processes present almost intractable difficulties to the researchers seeking to identify and understand them. In seeking to explain the production and perception of emotive content Mark Tatham and Katherine Morton review the potential of biological and cognitive models. They examine how the features that make up the speech production and perception systems have been studied by biologists, psychologists, and linguists, and assess how far biological, behavioural, and linguistic models generate hypotheses that provide insights into the nature of expressive speech.
The authors use recent techniques in speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition as a test bed for models of expression in speech. 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.
Contents
Introduction ; PART I EXPRESSION IN SPEECH ; 1. Natural Speech ; 2. Speech Synthesis ; 3. Expression in Natural Speech ; 4. Expression in Synthetic Speech ; 5. The Perception of Expression ; PART II TRANSFERRING NATURAL EXPRESSION TO SYNTHESIS ; 6. The State of the Art ; 7. Emotion in Speech Synthesis ; 8. Recent Developments in Synthesis Models ; PART III 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 ; PART IV 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. A Model of Speech Production Based on Expression and Prosody ; Conclusion ; References ; Bibliography ; Author Index ; Subject Index
