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Casual chatter or speaking up? Adjusting articulatory effort in generation of speech and animation for conversational characters
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Speech, Music and Hearing, TMH.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0397-6442
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Speech, Music and Hearing, TMH.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1175-840X
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Speech, Music and Hearing, TMH.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7801-7617
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Speech, Music and Hearing, TMH.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1399-6604
2023 (English)In: 2023 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2023, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Embodied conversational agents and social robots need to be able to generate spontaneous behavior in order to be believable in social interactions. We present a system that can generate spontaneous speech with supporting lip movements. The conversational TTS voice is trained on a podcast corpus that has been prosodically tagged (f0, speaking rate and energy) and transcribed (including tokens for breathing, fillers and laughter). We introduce a speech animation algorithm where articulatory effort can be adjusted. The speech animation is driven by time-stamped phonemes obtained from the internal alignment attention map of the TTS system, and we use prominence estimates from the synthesised speech waveform to modulate the lip- and jaw movements accordingly.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023.
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Natural Language Processing
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-350326DOI: 10.1109/FG57933.2023.10042520Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85149343136OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-350326DiVA, id: diva2:1883807
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17th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2023, Waikoloa Beach, United States of America, Jan 5 2023 - Jan 8 2023
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