Expressive Speech Analysis for Story Telling
Application
Prerna R. Patil
Dept. of E&TC Engineering
JSCOE, Hadapsar
Pune, India prernapatil4689@rediffmail.com Abstract
— In recent years, the work on expressive styles of speech has increased rather than focusing on basic emotions. The present paper shows the comparison of expressive sp eech and neutral speech on the basis of pitch and intensity where neutral speech can be further modify to produce expressive style with emotion which is suitable for story telling applica tion. Our approach is to perform an analysis of human storyte lling speech and design set of rules that modifies prosodic para meters such as pitch, intensity, tempo etc. This paper basically a ims at children as it deals with
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We have taken a sentence for example,”Once upon a t ime there was a man who was incredibly rich” which is r ecorded in both the speech that is neutral and storytelling st yle. After that we have taken those words where stress or emphasis is given in storytelling style. t Figure 2 : Plot of Word “once”
Fig.2 shows plot for word “once” which shows there is increase in pitch when said in storytelling style a s compare to neutral style where the pitch is low. t Figure 3 : Plot of word “upon”
Fig.3 shows plot for word “upon” which shows there is increase in pitch when said in storytelling style a s compare to neutral style where the pitch is low. t Figure 4 : Plot of word “incredibly”
Fig.4 shows plot for word “incredibly” which shows there is decrease in pitch when said in storytelling styl e as compare to neutral style where the pitch is high. t Figure 5 : Plot of word “rich”
Fig.5 shows plot for word “rich” which shows there is increase in pitch when said in storytelling style a s compare to neutral style where the pitch is low.
We can also see that duration of storytelling spe ech is less as compare to neutral speech in all the figures
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