[Blindmath] Emotional speech synthesis for numbers

[Christine Szostak]

Hi,
  This may be an ignorant question, but what is a "emotional speech 
synthesis system for numbers"? I am assuming it is one that can produce 
natural prosidy such as stress patterns, phoneme duration, and intonation, 
which to some extent JAWS outputs. Given this,  I was cureous in what way 
this will help with numbers since other than some stress-patterning 
differences, there should really not be too many changes in prosody...
many thanks,
Christine
Christine M. Szostak
Doctoral Candidate
Language Perception Laboratory
Department of Psychology, Cognitive Area
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
szostak.1 at osu.edu

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexandra Backof" <alexandra.backof at gmx.de>
To: <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 8:49 AM
Subject: [Blindmath] Emotional speech synthesis for numbers


> Dear Sir / Madam,
>
> I'm currently doing an internship at the department of applied
> computer science at Mannheim University which is required for
> my psychology studies. I set up a questionnaire dealing with an
> emotional speech synthesis system for numbers which will be
> presented to interested individuals via skype. I'm especially
> interested in people who use speech synthesizers on an
> everyday basis. So if you like to support me, just send me an
> email to arrange further details. As I need to transcribe your
> answers, I will have to record these interviews but assure
> that they will be deleted as soon as they are not required
> anymore.
>
> My email address is backof at pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de
>
> I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
>
> Best regards
>
> Alexandra Backof
>
>
>
>
>
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