Abstract: The present disclosure provides an intelligent emotional word expanding apparatus and an expanding method therefor. The intelligent emotional word expanding apparatus includes word dictionary storing module, emotion inferring module and word expanding module. The word dictionary storing module classifies emotional words into similarity, positivity or negativity, and emotional intensity using emotion classes including a basic emotion group classifying human emotions and a detailed emotion group classifying the basic emotion group, storing the classified emotional words in emotional word dictionary, and storing neutral words together with the number of calls thereof in neutral word dictionary. Emotion inferring module captures words and phrases of a sentence logged by a user, converting the words and phrases into basic formats, and inferring emotions.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 28, 2011
Publication date:
September 5, 2013
Applicant:
ACRIIL INC.
Inventors:
Wei Jin Park, Se Hwa Lee, Jina Park, Ik Jun Yeom, Seung Won Hwang
Abstract: The present disclosure provides an emotional voice synthesis apparatus and an emotional voice synthesis method. The emotional voice synthesis apparatus includes a word dictionary storage unit for storing emotional words in an emotional word dictionary after classifying the emotional words into items each containing at least one of an emotion class, similarity, positive or negative valence, and sentiment strength; voice DB storage unit for storing voices in a database after classifying the voices according to at least one of emotion class, similarity, positive or negative valence and sentiment strength in correspondence to the emotional words; emotion reasoning unit for inferring an emotion matched with the emotional word dictionary with respect to at least one of each word, phrase, and sentence of document including text and e-book; and voice output unit for selecting and outputting a voice corresponding to the document from the database according to the inferred emotion.