Patent US 8,036,899

This invention generally relates to system, methods and computer program code for editing or modifying speech affect. A speech affect processing system to enable a user to edit an affect content of a speech signal, the system comprising: input to receive speech analysis data from a speech processing system said speech analysis data, comprising a set of parameters representing said speech signal; a user input to receive user input data defining one or more affect-related operations to be performed on said speech signal; and an affect modification system coupled to said user input and to said speech processing system to modify said parameters in accordance with said one or more affect-related operations and further comprising a speech reconstruction system to reconstruct an affect modified speech signal from said modified parameters; and an output coupled to said affect modification system to output said affect modified speech signal.