Expression in speech : analysis and synthesis / Mark Tatham and Katherine Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tatham, Mark.

Contributor:

Morton, Katherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psycholinguistics.

Expression.

Speech synthesis.

Physical Description:

ix, 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

All human speech has expression. It is part of the 'humanness' of speech, and is a quality listeners expect to find. Without expression, speech sounds lifeless and artificial. Remove expression, and what's left is the bare bones of the intended message, but none of the feelings which surround the message. The purpose of this book is to present research examining expressive content in speech with a view to simulating expression in computer speech. Human beings communicate expressively with each other in conversation: now in the computer age there is a perceived need for machines to communicate expressively with humans in dialogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [393]-412) and indexes.

ISBN:

0199250677

OCLC:

52858185