Application of psychological characteristics to d-script model for emotional speech processing

Abstract

D-scripts model is originally developed for description of affective (emotional) mass media texts and with extension also applies to emotional speech synthesis. In this model we distinguish units for "rational" inference (r-scripts) and units for "emotional" processing of meaning (d-scripts). Basing on a psycholinguistics study we demonstrate relations between classes of emotional utterances in d-script model and psychological characteristics of informants. The study proposes a theoretical framework for an affective agent simulating given psychological characteristics in it's emotional speech behaviour. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.