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arxiv: 1806.09514 · v1 · pith:SEF73PGCnew · submitted 2018-06-25 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.AI· eess.AS

The Emotional Voices Database: Towards Controlling the Emotion Dimension in Voice Generation Systems

Adaeze Adigwe , No\'e Tits , Kevin El Haddad , Sarah Ostadabbas , Thierry Dutoit This is my paper
classification 💻 cs.CL cs.AIeess.AS
keywords datadatabaseemotionaldimensionefficiencyemotiongenerationmale
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In this paper, we present a database of emotional speech intended to be open-sourced and used for synthesis and generation purpose. It contains data for male and female actors in English and a male actor in French. The database covers 5 emotion classes so it could be suitable to build synthesis and voice transformation systems with the potential to control the emotional dimension in a continuous way. We show the data's efficiency by building a simple MLP system converting neutral to angry speech style and evaluate it via a CMOS perception test. Even though the system is a very simple one, the test show the efficiency of the data which is promising for future work.

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