BACKGROUND A small number of previous studies have provided evidence that cocaine users (CU) exhibit impairments in complex social cognition tasks, while the more basic facial emotion recognition is widely unaffected. However, prosody and cross-modal emotion processing has not been systematically investigated in CU so far. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to assess complex multisenso...

Evidence suggests that human non-verbal speech may be rich in iconicity. Here, we report results from two experiments aimed at testing whether perception of increasing and declining f 0 can iconically mapped onto motion events. We presented a sample mixed-nationality participants ( N = 118) with sets videos, where one pictured upward movement the other downward movement. A disyllabic non-sense ...

This paper provides a brief introduction to prosody research in the context of human-computer communication and an overview of the contributions of the papers in the session. In large part, prosody is "the relative temporal groupings of words and the relative prominence of certain syllables within these groupings" (Price and Hirsehherg [1]). This organization of the words, as Silverman points o...

Neurocognitive models (e.g., Schirmer & Kotz, 2006) have helped to characterize how listeners incrementally derive meaning from vocal expressions of emotion in spoken language, what neural mechanisms are involved at different processing stages, and their relative time course. But can these insights be applied communicative situations which prosody serves a predominantly interpersonal functi...

What is the prosodic mechanism of faster or slower discourse speech? This paper focuses on observing the effects of speech rate on discourse prosody of Standard Chinese speech with fast, normal and slow speech rates. The investigation in discourse prosody structure demonstrates that the speaking rate effects on discourse prosody are nonlinear and need careful manipulations.

We investigate the role of prosody in child-directed speech of three English speaking adults using data collected for the Human Speechome Project, an ecologically valid, longitudinal corpus collected from the home of a family with a young child. We looked at differences in prosody between child-directed and adult-directed speech. We also looked at the change in prosody of child-directed speech ...

In order to improve unlimited TTS, a framework to organize the multiple perceived units into discourse is proposed in [1]. To make an unlimited TTS system, we must transform the original text to the text with corresponding boundary breaks. So we describe how we predicate prosody from Text in this paper. We use the corpora with boundary breaks which follow the prosody framework. Then we use the ...

This thesis addresses the issue of modelling speech prosody for speech synthesis, and presents MeLos: a complete system for the analysis and modelling of speech prosody “the music of speech”. Research into the analysis and modelling of speech prosody has increased dramatically in recent decades, and speech prosody has emerged as a crucial concern for speech synthesis. The issue of speech prosod...