EP1256933A3 - Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an emotion synthesising device - Google Patents

Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an emotion synthesising device Download PDF

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EP1256933A3
EP1256933A3 EP01402176A EP01402176A EP1256933A3 EP 1256933 A3 EP1256933 A3 EP 1256933A3 EP 01402176 A EP01402176 A EP 01402176A EP 01402176 A EP01402176 A EP 01402176A EP 1256933 A3 EP1256933 A3 EP 1256933A3
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emotion
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parameter
conveyed
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Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
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Sony France SA
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Priority to JP2002206013A priority patent/JP2003177772A/en
Priority to US10/217,002 priority patent/US7457752B2/en
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
    • G10L13/00—Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
    • G10L13/02—Methods for producing synthetic speech; Speech synthesisers
    • G10L13/033—Voice editing, e.g. manipulating the voice of the synthesiser
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
    • G10L13/00—Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
    • G10L13/08—Text analysis or generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text, e.g. grapheme to phoneme translation, prosody generation or stress or intonation determination
    • G10L13/10—Prosody rules derived from text; Stress or intonation

Abstract

The invention controls the operation of an emotion synthesising device (12), notably of the type where the emotion is conveyed on a sound, having at least one input parameter (Pi) whose value (Ei) is used to set a type of emotion to be conveyed, by making at least one parameter a variable parameter (VPi) over a determined control range, thereby to confer a variability in an amount of the type of emotion to be conveyed.
The variable parameter (VPi) can be made variable according to a variation model over the control range, the model relating a quantity of emotion control variable (δ) to the variable parameter, whereby said control variable is used to variably establish a value of said variable parameter.
Preferably the variation obeys a linear model, the variable parameter being made to vary linearly with a variation in a quantity of emotion control variable (δ).
EP20010402176 2001-05-11 2001-08-14 Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an emotion synthesising device Expired - Lifetime EP1256933B1 (en)

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EP20010402176 EP1256933B1 (en) 2001-05-11 2001-08-14 Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an emotion synthesising device
JP2002206013A JP2003177772A (en) 2001-07-13 2002-07-15 Method and apparatus for controlling operation of emotion synthesizing device
US10/217,002 US7457752B2 (en) 2001-08-14 2002-08-12 Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an emotion synthesizing device

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EP01401203A EP1256931A1 (en) 2001-05-11 2001-05-11 Method and apparatus for voice synthesis and robot apparatus
EP01401203 2001-05-11
EP20010401880 EP1256932B1 (en) 2001-05-11 2001-07-13 Method and apparatus for synthesising an emotion conveyed on a sound
EP01401880 2001-07-13
EP20010402176 EP1256933B1 (en) 2001-05-11 2001-08-14 Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an emotion synthesising device

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