Affectron: Emotional Speech Synthesis with Affective and Contextually Aligned Nonverbal Vocalizations

Deok-Hyeon Cho, Hyung-Seok Oh, Seung-Bin Kim +1

Nonverbal vocalizations (NVs), such as laughter and sighs, are central to the expression of affective cues in emotional speech synthesis. However, learning diverse and contextually…