FINE-GRAINED EMOTIONAL CONTROL OF TEXT-TO-SPEECH: LEARNING TO RANK INTER-AND INTRA-CLASS EMOTION INTENSITIES
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conference paper
Date Issued
2023-03-11
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Abstract
State-of-the-art Text-To-Speech (TTS) models are capable of producing high-quality speech. The generated speech, however, is usually neutral in emotional expression, whereas very often one would want fine-grained emotional control of words or phonemes. Although still challenging, the first TTS models have been recently proposed that are able to control voice by manually assigning emotion intensity. Unfortunately, due to the neglect of intra-class distance, the intensity differences are often unrecognizable. In this paper, we propose a fine-grained controllable emotional TTS, that considers both inter-and intra-class distances and be able to synthesize speech with recognizable intensity difference. Our subjective and objective experiments demonstrate that our model exceeds two state-of-the-art controllable TTS models for controllability, emotion expressiveness and naturalness.
Language
English
Keywords
emotional TTS
emotion intensity control
speech emotion analysis
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