Readership: · Higher and further education research and teaching in the fields psychology, bio-psychology, linguistics, phonetics, cognitive science, computer science. · Industrial and company research and development toward automated systems, such as call centres and human computer interaction. · General readership among those interested in computer applications, especially computer simulation of human behaviour.
Mark Tatham, University of Essex, and Katherine Morton, formerly University of Essex
"suggests a new way of looking at the problem ... will interest anyone studying emotions" - The Phonetician
"... extremely useful as a guide to anyone working on the interface between emotion in speech and speech synthesis. Tatham and Morton offer a far-sighted perspective to this topic and make explicit many issues the developer of synthesis systems might not think about at all. In this sense the book is also a very good example of how the linguist and phonetician can make valuable contributions to speech technology, and that in the end the best results will be obtained if speech technologists and linguists/phoneticians work together." - Linguist List
Introduction 1 Expression in Speech 1: Natural Speech 2: Speech Synthesis 3: Expression in Natural Speech 4: Expression in Synthetic Speech 5: The Perception of Expression 2 Transferring Natural Expression to Synthesis 6: The State of the Art 7: Emotion in Speech Synthesis 8: Recent Developments in Synthesis Models 3 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 4 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: An Expression and Prosody Based Model of Speech Production Conclusion References
