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The aim is to develop an emotion-aware voice-based assistant that enhances speech synthesis for natural communication.

May 8, 2026Open Access

Enhancing Speech Synthesis With Human-Like Emotional Intelligence For Natural And Expressive Communication

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PBPaul Binu PWPaulu Wilson RGRonal Shoey George

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Randomized trial evaluates a voice-based therapy assistant's effectiveness in human-like communication, suggesting improved support for mental health applications.

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The aim is to develop an emotion-aware voice-based assistant that enhances speech synthesis for natural communication.
Integrated emotion-aware AI with speech recognition and text-to-speech synthesis.
Evaluated against two baselines: generic neutral TTS and a rule-based keyword approach.
Utilized a modular architecture with four major components: Voice Input, Processing and AI, Emotion Analysis, and Speech Synthesis.
The proposed model achieved an overall score of 74.51, outperforming both baselines.
Significantly better performance in emotion recognition accuracy compared to traditional methods.
Enhanced conversational quality confirmed by successful emotional conditioning and response generation.

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Binu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fd7e23bfa21ec5bbf0651c https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20045982

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Randomized trial evaluates a voice-based therapy assistant's effectiveness in human-like communication, suggesting improved support for mental health applications.

Enhancing Speech Synthesis With Human-Like Emotional Intelligence For Natural And Expressive Communication

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Enhancing Speech Synthesis With Human-Like Emotional Intelligence For Natural And Expressive Communication

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