Emotiphons: Emotion markers in Conversational Speech - Comparison across Indian Languages
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چکیده
In spontaneous speech, emotion information is embedded at several levels: acoustic, linguistic, gestural (non-verbal), etc. For emotion recognition in speech, there is much attention to acoustic level and some attention at the linguistic level. In this study, we identify paralinguistic markers for emotion in the language. We study two Indian languages belonging to two distinct language families. We consider Marathi from Indo-Aryan and Kannada from Dravidian family. We show that there exist large numbers of specific paralinguistic emotion markers in these languages, referred to as emotiphons. They are inter-twined with prosody and semantics. Preprocessing of speech signal with respect to emotiphons would facilitate emotion recognition in speech for Indian languages. Some of them are common between the two languages, indicating cultural influence in language usage.
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