EMOTION INCLUSION IN AN ARABIC TEXT-TO-SPEECH (MonAmOR8)

Author(s) : Oumayma Al-Hakawati Al-Dakkak (Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology (HIAST), Syrian Arab Republic) Nada Ghneim (Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology (HIAST), Syrian Arab Republic) Mohamed Abou Zliekha (Damascus University, Syrian Arab Republic) Samer Al-Moubayed (Damascus University, Syrian Arab Republic)

Abstract : Abstract Many attempts have been conducted to add emotions to synthesized speech [1]. Few are done for the Arabic language. In the present paper, we introduce a work done to incorporate emotions: anger, joy, sadness, fear and surprise, in an educational Arabic text-to-speech system. After an introduction about emotions, we give a short paragraph of our text-to-speech system, then we discuss our methodology to extract rules for emotion generation, and finally we present the results we had and try to draw conclusions.

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