@inproceedings{8c6de977f08148e48e77c5e6a4c9ef44,
title = "Neutral to anger speech conversion using non-uniform duration modification",
abstract = "In this paper, the non-uniform duration modification is exploited along with other prosody features for neutral speech to anger speech conversion. The non-uniform duration modification method modifies the durations of vowel and pause segments by different modification factors. Vowel segments are modified by factors based on their identities, and pause segments by uniform factors. Consonant and transition segments are not modified. These modification factors are derived from the analysis of neutral and anger speech. For this purpose, a well known Indian database named as the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Simulated Emotion Speech Corpus (IITKGP-SESC) is chosen for analysis of emotions and synthesis of emotions from neutral speech. The prosodie features used in this study for emotion conversion are pitch contour, intensity contour, and duration contour. Subjective listening test results show that the effectiveness of perception of emotion is better in case of non-uniform duration modification than uniform duration modification.",
keywords = "Anger speech, Duration contour, Emotion conversion, Intensity contour, Neutral speech, Non-uniform duration modification, Pitch shift",
author = "Vuppala, \{Anil Kumar\} and Kadiri, \{Sudarsana Reddy\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.",
year = "2015",
month = feb,
day = "9",
doi = "10.1109/ICIINFS.2014.7036614",
language = "English",
series = "9th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, ICIIS 2014",
publisher = "IEEE",
editor = "Arya, \{Karm Veer\} and Sunil Kumar",
booktitle = "9th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, ICIIS 2014",
address = "United States",
}