TexAFon 2.0: A text processing tool for the generation of expressive speech in TTS applications

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Juan Mar{\'\i}a Garrido, Yesika Laplaza, Benjamin Kolz, Miquel Cornudella

These improvements include a new normalisation module for the standardisation on chat text in Spanish, a module for the detection of the expressed emotions in the input text, and a module for the automatic detection of the intended speech acts, which are briefly described in the paper.

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The I3MEDIA speech database: a trilingual annotated corpus for the analysis and synthesis of emotional speech

no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Juan Mar{\'\i}a Garrido, Yesika Laplaza, Montse Marquina, Andrea Pearman, Jos{\'e} Gregorio Escalada, Miguel {\'A}ngel Rodr{\'\i}guez, Ana Armenta

In this article the I3Media corpus is presented, a trilingual (Catalan, English, Spanish) speech database of neutral and emotional material collected for analysis and synthesis purposes.