Papers by Niranjan Pedanekar
Empathic Machines: Using Intermediate Features as Levers to Emulate Emotions in Text-To-Speech Systems (2022.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | a method to control affective prosody of text-to-speech systems is proposed to use phoneme-level intermediate features as levers . DS is used to disentangle features relating to affective proody from those due to acoustics conditions and speaker identity . |
| Approach: | They propose a method to control the emotional prosody of Text to Speech systems by using phoneme-level intermediate features as levers. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves over the prior art in emulating emotion in speech . it adds the much-coveted "human touch" in machine dialogue, the authors say . |