Prosodic phrasing is crucial to the naturalness and intelligibility of end-to-end Text-to-Speech (TTS). There exist both linguistic and emotional prosody in natural speech. As the study of prosodic phrasing has been linguistically motivated, prosodic phrasing for expressive emotion rendering has not been well studied. In this paper, we propose an emotion aware prosodic phrasing model, termed EmoPP, to mine the emotional cues of utterance accurately and predict appropriate phrase breaks. We first conduct objective observations on the ESD dataset to validate the strong correlation between emotion and prosodic phrasing. Then the objective and subjective evaluations show that the EmoPP outperforms all baselines and achieves remarkable performance in terms of emotion expressiveness. The audio samples and the code are available at https://github.com/AI-S2-Lab/EmoPP .

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Emotion-Aware Prosodic Phrasing for Expressive Text-to-Speech

  • Bin Liu,
  • Rui Liu,
  • Haizhou Li

摘要

Prosodic phrasing is crucial to the naturalness and intelligibility of end-to-end Text-to-Speech (TTS). There exist both linguistic and emotional prosody in natural speech. As the study of prosodic phrasing has been linguistically motivated, prosodic phrasing for expressive emotion rendering has not been well studied. In this paper, we propose an emotion aware prosodic phrasing model, termed EmoPP, to mine the emotional cues of utterance accurately and predict appropriate phrase breaks. We first conduct objective observations on the ESD dataset to validate the strong correlation between emotion and prosodic phrasing. Then the objective and subjective evaluations show that the EmoPP outperforms all baselines and achieves remarkable performance in terms of emotion expressiveness. The audio samples and the code are available at https://github.com/AI-S2-Lab/EmoPP .