Virtual Storytelling: Emotions for the narrator
H.A. Buurman · 2007
iii During my time here as a student in the Computer Science department, the field of language appealed to me more than all the other fields available. For my internship, I worked on an assignment involving speech recognition, so when a graduation project concerning speech generation became available I applied for it. This seemed like a nice complementation of my experience with speech recognition. Though the project took me in previously unknown fields of psychology, linguistics, and (unfortunately) statistics, I feel a lot more at home working with- and on Text-to-Speech applications. Along the way, lots of people supported me, motivated me and helped me by participating in experiments. I would like to thank these people, starting with Mariët Theune, who kept providing me with constructive feedback and never stopped motivating me. Also I would like to thank the rest of my graduation committee: Rieks op den Akker and Roeland Ordelman, who despite their busy schedule found time now and then to provide alternative insights and support. My family also deserves my gratitude for their continued motivation and interest. Lastly I would like to thank all the people who helped me with the experiments. Without you, this would have been a