Emotional narration of children’s stories

Authors

• Jon Aaron Alcantara, De La Salle University, Manila
• Louie Patrice Lu, De La Salle University, Manila
• John Kynneth Magno, De La Salle University, Manila
• Zhayne Chong Soriano, De La Salle University, Manila
• Ethel Chua Joy Ong, De La Salle University, Manila
• Ron R. Resurreccion, De La Salle University, Manila

College

College of Computer Studies

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Theory and Practice of Computation: Workshop on Computation: Theory and Practice Quezon City, Philippines, September 2011 Proceedings.

First Page

1

Last Page

14

Publication Date

2012

Abstract

Storytelling is both an entertaining and an educational tool for children. While Picture Books has shown the capability for a computer system to generate children’s stories, it lacks the storytelling capability needed in order to narrate the story to young beginning readers (age 4-6). Stories that are narrated with emotion can improve the experience of these young listeners. This paper presents the development of a synthesized voice narrator capable of expressing emotions while narrating the children’s stories generated by the Picture Books system. Test results showed that the children were able to recognize the generated sound clips that reflect the emotions happy and sad, but had difficulty recognizing the emotions reflecting anger, fear and surprise.

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Recommended Citation

Alcantara, J., Lu, L., Magno, J., Soriano, Z. C., Ong, E., & Resurreccion, R. R. (2012). Emotional narration of children’s stories. Theory and Practice of Computation: Workshop on Computation: Theory and Practice Quezon City, Philippines, September 2011 Proceedings., 1-14. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/14937

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Digital storytelling; Natural language generation (Computer science); Children's stories—Data processing

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