Attitudes or social affects are strongly implied in interaction processing, and specifically to
socio-cultural aspects of language. This paper presents the modeling of attitude to apply in …

Emotional speech synthesis has gained attention for enhancing the naturalness and
expressiveness of synthesized speech. However, developing emotional speech synthesis …

A salient aspect of the tone system of Hanoi Vietnamese is its use of phonation-type
characteristics. This pilot study investigates intonational variation in the realization of two …

Attempts to add expressivity to synthesized speech is one of the main strategies in speech
technologies. This paper summarizes our researches on modeling Vietnamese prosody …

This work aims at using a free labeling method as a reliable way to show the complexity of
the concepts induced in listeners by audiovisual prosodic attitude performances in French …

The work presented in this thesis addresses the problem of generating audio-visual
expressive performances for virtual actors. A virtual actor is represented by a 3D talking …