Towards a Gendered Mexican Spanish Emotive Speech Synthetic Voice
Abel Herrera-Camacho and Fernando Del Río-Ávila
Laboratorio de Procesamiento de Voz, Facultad de Ingeniería, UNAM
Abstract—A new Mexican Spanish voice was created from a set of emotive recordings (neutral, happy, sad and angry) taken from two speakers (male and female). All recordings were used to generate a single database, from this database we extracted the emotional information of each phrase and added new tags to the phonetic transcription to select the correct gender and emotion during training and synthesis time.
Index Terms—emotive speech synthesis, HTS synthesis technique, hidden Markov models, Mel frequency cepstral coefficients
Cite: Abel Herrera-Camacho and Fernando Del Río-Ávila, "Towards a Gendered Mexican Spanish Emotive Speech Synthetic Voice," International Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 519-522, December 2016. doi: 10.18178/ijsps.4.6.519-522
Cite: Abel Herrera-Camacho and Fernando Del Río-Ávila, "Towards a Gendered Mexican Spanish Emotive Speech Synthetic Voice," International Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 519-522, December 2016. doi: 10.18178/ijsps.4.6.519-522