Designing and Recording an Emotional Speech Database for Corpus Based Synthesis in Basque

Ibon Saratxaga, Eva Navas, Inmaculada Hernáez, Iker Aholab


Abstract
This paper describes an emotional speech database recorded for standard Basque. The database has been designed with the twofold purpose of being used for corpus based synthesis, and also of allowing the study of prosodic models for the emotions. The database is thus large, to get good corpus based synthesis quality and contains the same texts recorded in the six basic emotions plus the neutral style. The recordings were carried out by two professional dubbing actors, a man and a woman. The paper explains the whole creation process, beginning with the design stage, following with the corpus creation and the recording phases, and finishing with some learned lessons and hints.
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L06-1009
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Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)
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May
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2006
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Genoa, Italy
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Aldo Gangemi, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Daniel Tapias
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/19_pdf.pdf
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Ibon Saratxaga, Eva Navas, Inmaculada Hernáez, and Iker Aholab. 2006. Designing and Recording an Emotional Speech Database for Corpus Based Synthesis in Basque. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06), Genoa, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Designing and Recording an Emotional Speech Database for Corpus Based Synthesis in Basque (Saratxaga et al., LREC 2006)
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