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Grůber, M. and Matoušek, J. : Listening-test-based annotation of communicative functions for expressive speech synthesis . Text, Speech and Dialogue, proceedings of the 13th International Conference TSD 2010, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 6231, p. 283-290, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany, 2010.

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This paper is focused on the evaluation of listening test thatwas realized with a view to objectively annotate expressive speech recordingsand further develop a limited domain expressive speech synthesissystem. There are two main issues to face in this task. The first matterin issue to be taken into consideration is the fact that expressivity inspeech has to be defined in some way. The second problem is that perceptionof expressive speech is a subjective question. However, for thepurposes of expressive speech synthesis using unit selection algorithms,the expressive speech corpus has to be objectively and unambiguouslyannotated. At first, a classification of expressivity was determined makinguse of communicative functions. These are supposed to describe thetype of expressivity and/or speaker?s attitude. Further, to achieve objectivityat a significant level, a listening test with relatively high numberof listeners was realized. The listeners were asked to mark sentences inthe corpus using communicative functions. The aim of the test was toacquire a sufficient number of subjective annotations of the expressiverecordings so that we would be able to create ?objective? annotation.There are several methods to obtain objective evaluation from lots ofsubjective ones, two of them are presented.

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Title: Listening-test-based annotation of communicative functions for expressive speech synthesis
Author: Grůber, M. ; Matoušek, J.
Language: English
Date of publication: 6 Sep 2010
Year: 2010
Type of publication: Papers in journals
Book title: Text, Speech and Dialogue, proceedings of the 13th International Conference TSD 2010
Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Číslo vydání: 6231
Page: 283 - 290
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15760-8_36
ISSN: 0302-9743
Publisher: Springer
Address: Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany
Date: 6 Sep 2010 - 10 Sep 2010
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expressive speech synthesis, listening test, communicativefunctions, inter-rater agreement measure

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@INPROCEEDINGS{GruberM_2010_Listening-test-based,
 author = {Gr\r{u}ber, M. and Matou\v{s}ek, J.},
 title = {Listening-test-based annotation of communicative functions for expressive speech synthesis},
 year = {2010},
 publisher = {Springer},
 address = {Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany},
 volume = {6231},
 pages = {283-290},
 booktitle = {Text, Speech and Dialogue, proceedings of the 13th International Conference TSD 2010},
 series = {Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence},
 ISSN = {0302-9743},
 doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-15760-8_36},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/GruberM_2010_Listening-test-based},
}