Saiteja Kosgi

Empathic Machines: Using Intermediate Features as Levers to Emulate Emotions in Text-To-Speech Systems

We present a method to control the emotional prosody of Text to Speech (TTS) systems by using phoneme-level intermediate features (pitch, energy, and duration) as levers. As a key idea, we propose Differential Scaling (DS) to disentangle features relating to affective prosody from those arising due…