Browsing Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Affect"

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    • Integrating a voice analysis-synthesis system with a TTS framework for controlling affect and speaker identity 

      Yanushevskaya, Irena; Gobl, Christer; Ni Chasaide, Ailbhe; Murphy, Andrew (2021)
      This paper reports an experiment exploring how a voice analysis-synthesis system, GlórCáil, can be used to add expressiveness to the synthetic voice in text-to-speech (TTS) systems. This implementation focuses on the Irish ...

    • Perceived loudness and voice quality in affect cueing 

      Ni Chasaide, Ailbhe; Gobl, Christer; Yanushevskaya, Irena (2009)
      The paper describes an auditory experiment aimed at testing whether the intrinsic loudness of a stimulus with a given voice quality influences the way in which it signals affect. Synthesised voice quality stimuli in which ...

    • Universal and language-specific perception of affect from voice 

      Ni Chasaide, Ailbhe; Gobl, Christer; Yanushevskaya, Irena (2011)
      This paper outlines the general results of a cross-language study of perception of affect from voice. The study aims to clarify how variations in voice quality (in synthesized stimuli) can evoke different affective coloring ...