Voice qualities and speech expressiveness
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چکیده
The objective of this work is to investigate correlations between the use of settings of vocal qualities and the expression of acted emotions and attitudes in speech. For the description of voice qualities, the phonetic model of description of voice quality settings developed by [1] was used. The corpus is constituted by the poem "I-Juca Pirama", interpreted by a professional actor. The perceptual analysis of the data describes the permanent settings in relation to the physical state, while age and temporary settings are related to the expression of anger, sadness, indignation, happiness and anxiety in order to create suspense and drama. The temporary settings respond to the covariance patterns derived from the activation of the organism: the more tense it is, the more activated it becomes.
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