Generative models for speech emotion synthesis

• Main Author: Raj, Nathanael S.
• Other Authors: Jagath C. Rajapakse
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Artificial intelligence
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76865
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Several attempts have been made to synthesize speech from text. However, existing methods tend to generate speech that sound artificial and lack emotional content. In this project, we investigate using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to generate emotional speech. WaveGAN (2019) was a fir...