EmoFilt enables the free-for-non-commercial-use speech synthesis engine MBROLA to sound emotional by manipulating the phonetic description. It does so by modifying melody and rhythm of the speech, matching a target emotion. It is available for 34 languag
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* 0.95 04/02/08 - changed replacements of language descriptors for de[1,2,3,4,5] from 6-a: to a-a:. - enhanced readability of messages in GUI - changeLastSylContour now changes last syllable containing a voiced phoneme. - fixed bug in modelContour causing zero f0-values at utterance end. - added Dutch: nl2 * 0.94 28/01/08 - added global rate for graded emotion simulation: possibility to dampen or amplify all modifications by a single factor. * 0.93 10/10/07 - make GUI geometry configurable - interpolate missing pitch contour description for voiced phonemes - reads and writes now also pitch information for unvoiced phonemes - added save PHO file functionality - removed the automatic modeling of f0-contours when reading in a PHO file - fixed some serious bugs concerning the modeling of f0-contours (still needed for jitter and wave-model) - removed the automatic modeling of f0-contours when reading in a PHO file. Modeling is now only done when required by modification-plugin - fixed some serious bugs concerning the modeling of f0-contours (still needed for jitter and wave-model) * 0.91 26/9/07 - fixed bug: couldN#t read in files starting with vowel - changed pitch interpolation to interpolate between phoneme borders * 0.9 25/5/06 - migrated code to java 1.5.0 - added interface to Mary (http://mary.dfki.de/) Text-to-speech in the GUI. Start the Mary server and edit the PhoGenCmd section in the config.ini if you want to use it. You can call the Mary-server via the GUI (new utterance) or via the commandline (-mary option). - fixed bug: wave-model plugin caused zero-pitch values if utterance starts or ends with voiceless syllables. - fixed bug: globally descending f0-contour had no syllable-focus. - fixed bug: plugin lastSylContour didn't work on utterances with unvoiced last syllables. * 0.8 10/9/05 - fixed bug: modifications werde done repeatedly - new feature: can specify Colors by names (as specified at http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp) - fixed bug: rewritten Syllabelizer, many bugs fixed * 0.7 29/8/05 - added plugin architecture for modifications (see extra docs on how to write own modifications) - changed almost all modification-names : old emotions.xml files won't work any more - bug: change last sylcontour didn't work for English * 0.6 28/2/05 - changed -v option to -version - fixed bug: -voc option wasn't settable - tested with Linux (Suse 9.0) - changed pathes to external commands in the config-file - renamed config-file extension from .dat to .ini * 0.5 22/2/05 - changed rate-settings for jitter (now from 0-20 in 1-steps) and pauses (now from 0-1000 in 20-steps). - added workingDir in config-file to make it easier to change the program's path - fixed bug: help-file wasn't readable from jar-file - added save-utterance button - showHelp didn't work with jar-file. - fixed bug: overlong error messages caused Gui-widgets to collaps - added menu icons - fixed bug: close window in GUI didn't exit program - added looks jgoodies look and feel - fixed bug: no tooltip for changeLastSylContour * 0.4 15/2/05 - fixed bug: if reading emotion-descriptions from non-English denotations pitch-contours, vowel-targets and voice-effort were ignored - look and feel can now be set in config-file - fixed bug: starting a pho-file with pauses gave nullpointer in syllablelize - added defaultVoice to config-file - fixed bug: duration and time f0-values couldn't be specified as Doubles - Gui starts now also without initial utterance * 0.3 27/1/05 - added German configuration file for distribution - added gender option for NLP-processor in the GUI. - Added tooltips. - Added description-element for emotions (shows as tooltip). - Fixed bug: No error message appeared if NLP-program wasn't configured. - Fixed bug: Foreground color in modification-label wasn't setable * 0.2 12/1/05 - added command-line interface. * 0.1 10/1/05 - very first alpha version, not yet tested.
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