2 papers
cs.SD2022
Acoustic Modeling for End-to-End Empathetic Dialogue Speech Synthesis Using Linguistic and Prosodic Contexts of Dialogue History
Yuto Nishimura, Yuki Saito, Shinnosuke Takamichi +2
We propose an end-to-end empathetic dialogue speech synthesis (DSS) model that considers both the linguistic and prosodic contexts of dialogue history. Empathy is the active attemp…
cs.SD2022
STUDIES: Corpus of Japanese Empathetic Dialogue Speech Towards Friendly Voice Agent
Yuki Saito, Yuto Nishimura, Shinnosuke Takamichi +2
We present STUDIES, a new speech corpus for developing a voice agent that can speak in a friendly manner. Humans naturally control their speech prosody to empathize with each other…