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This chapter addresses the issue of expressive speech processing. It attempts to explain a mechanism for expressiveness in speech, and proposes a novel dimension of spoken language processing for speech technology applications, showing that although great progress has already been made, there is still much to be done before we can consider speech processing to be a truly mature technology.
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This work is partly supported by the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts, and Telecommunications, Japan under the SCOPE funding initiative. The ESP corpus was collected over a period of 5 years with support from the Japan Science & Technology Corporation (JST/CREST) Core Research for Evolutional Science & Technology funding initiative. The author also wishes to thank the management of the Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratory and the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International for their continuing support and encouragement of this work. The chapter was written while the author was employed by NiCT, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. He is currently employed by Trinity College, the University of Dublin, Ireland, as Stokes Professor of Speech & Communication Technology.
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Campbell, N. (2010). Expressive Speech Processing and Prosody Engineering: An Illustrated Essay on the Fragmented Nature of Real Interactive Speech. In: Chen, F., Jokinen, K. (eds) Speech Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73819-2_7
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