@inproceedings{ddb420aca54c45a7a28cd4cd3d59c262,
title = "Expressive latvian speech synthesis for dialog systems",
abstract = "To fully enable spoken human-computer interaction, the text-to-speech (TTS) component of such a system must produce natural human-like speech and adjust the prosody according to the dialog context. While the current publicly available TTS services can produce natural-sounding speech, they usually lack emotional expressiveness. In this paper, we present an expressive speech synthesis prototype for the Latvian language. The prototype is integrated into our chatbot management system and enables bot designers to specify the stylistic information for each bot response, thus making the interaction with the chatbot more natural.",
keywords = "Chatbot, Dialog system, Expressive speech synthesis, Human-computer interaction",
author = "Dāvis Nicmanis and Askars Salimbajevs",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2021 ISCA.",
year = "2021",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781713836902",
volume = "3",
series = "Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH",
pages = "2181--2182",
booktitle = "22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021",
}