KINESICS IN PARALINGUISTIC ASPECTS

Paralinguistic Microphone

The Human vocal tract is considered for its sonorous qualities in carrying prosodic information, which implicates vision in the perceptual processes of speech. These considerations are put in the context of previous work in NIME, forming background for the introduction of two sound installations; “Microphone”, which uses a camera and computer vision to translate mouth shapes to sounds, and “Mic...

The effect of fear on paralinguistic aspects of speech in patients with panic disorder with agoraphobia.

The present study investigated the effect of fear on paralinguistic aspects of speech in patients suffering from panic disorder with agoraphobia (N = 25). An experiment was conducted that comprised two modules: Autobiographical Talking and Script Talking. Each module consisted of two emotional conditions: Fearful and Happy. Speech was recorded digitally and analyzed using PRAAT, a computer prog...

>HACK::Home Automation Controlled by Kinesics

Paralinguistic elements in speech synthesis

Corpus based text-to-speech systems currently produce very natural synthetic sentences, though limited to a neutral inexpressive speaking style. Paralinguistic elements are some of the expressive features one would most like to introduce. In this paper, we describe a new method for introducing laughter and hesitation in synthetic speech. Thanks to a small dedicated acoustic database, this metho...

Analyzing and Safeguarding Human-Kinesics Information in Wirelessly Instrumented Space

This paper presents a systematic study of privacy leakage in the wirelessly instrumented space. Rapid advances in RFID and sensing technologies enable the construction of wirelessly instrumented space for variety of applications including assisted living, smart manufacturing facilities, intelligent appliances, and more. The wireless and pervasive nature of these technologies provides an opportu...