@inproceedings{c520b2a389814093b59c3d9281a428e4,
title = "Emotion identification for evaluation of synthesized emotional speech",
abstract = "In this paper, we propose to evaluate the quality of emotional speech synthesis by means of an automatic emotion identification system. We test this approach using five different parametric speech synthesis systems, ranging from plain non-emotional synthesis to full re-synthesis of pre-recorded speech. We compare the results achieved with the automatic system to those of human perception tests. While preliminary, our results indicate that automatic emotion identification can be used to assess the quality of emotional speech synthesis, potentially replacing time consuming and expensive human perception tests.",
keywords = "Automatic quality assessment, Emotion, Human perception, Speech synthesis",
author = "Stefan Steidl and Tim Polzehl and \{Timothy Bunnell\}, H. and Ying Dou and Muthukumar, \{Prasanna Kumar\} and Daniel Perry and Kishore Prahallad and Callie Vaughn and Black, \{Alan W.\} and Florian Metze",
year = "2012",
language = "English",
isbn = "9787560848693",
series = "Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2012",
publisher = "Tongji University Press",
pages = "661--664",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2012",
address = "China",
note = "6th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2012, SP 2012 ; Conference date: 22-05-2012 Through 25-05-2012",
}