Papers by Harm Lameris
The Role of Creaky Voice in Turn Taking and the Perception of Speaker Stance: Experiments Using Controllable TTS (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in spontaneous text-to-speech (TTS) have enabled the realistic generation of creaky voice, a voice quality known for its diverse pragmatic and paralinguistic functions. |
| Approach: | They used a creaky voice detection tool and a neural TTS engine to control creaky phonation in a spontaneous speech corpus to investigate the effect of creaky voices on perceived certainty, valence, sarcasm, and turn finality. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model enables the realistic synthesis of creaky voice in perceptual tests without formal training. |