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Jan Romportl and Enrico Zovato and Raúl Santos and Pavel Ircing and José Relaño Gil and Morena Danieli : Application of Expressive TTS Synthesis in an Advanced ECA System . Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, p. 120-125, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kyoto, 2010.

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The research project COMPANIONS aims at developing an advanced embodied conversational agent (ECA). This ECA is used in two scenarios and two languages (English and Czech), and it requires a TTS system being able to generate very natural expressive and emotional speech output. This paper describes application issues of two such systems within the ECA, introduces approaches to expressive speech handling in unit selection methods, and discusses similarities and differences between these systems and approaches.

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Title: Application of Expressive TTS Synthesis in an Advanced ECA System
Author: Jan Romportl ; Enrico Zovato ; Raúl Santos ; Pavel Ircing ; José Relaño Gil ; Morena Danieli
Language: English
Date of publication: 22 Sep 2010
Year: 2010
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis
Page: 120 - 125
ISSN: 1680-8908
Publisher: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Address: Kyoto
Date: 22 Sep 2010 - 24 Sep 2010
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expressive speech synthesis, TTS, unit selection, embodied conversational agent, dialogue system

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@INPROCEEDINGS{JanRomportl_2010_Applicationof,
 author = {Jan Romportl and Enrico Zovato and Ra\'{u}l Santos and Pavel Ircing and Jos\'{e} Rela?o Gil and Morena Danieli},
 title = {Application of Expressive TTS Synthesis in an Advanced ECA System},
 year = {2010},
 publisher = {National Institute of Information and Communications Technology},
 address = {Kyoto},
 pages = {120-125},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis},
 ISSN = {1680-8908},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/JanRomportl_2010_Applicationof},
}

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