In earlier studies, we employed a large prosodic feature vector to assess the quality of L2 learner’s utterances with respect to sentence melody and rhythm. In this paper, we combine these features with two standard approaches in paralinguistic analysis: (1) features derived from a Gaussian Mixture Model used as Universal Background Model (GMM-UBM), and (2) openSMILE, an open-source toolkit for...

As automatic speech processing has matured, research attention has expanded to paralinguistic speech problems that aim to detect beyond-the-words information. This paper focuses on the identification of seven speaker trait categories from the Interspeech Speaker Trait Challenge: likeability, intelligibility, openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Our approach...

Support vector machine (SVM) has been proven as a powerful tool for solving age and gender classification problems. However, SVM is sensitive to noise and outliers. In this paper we propose a new fuzzy SVM based on an assumption that training data points should not be treated equally to avoid the problem of sensitivity to noise and outliers. This can be achieved by assigning a fuzzy membership ...

Video content is being produced in ever increasing quantities and offers a potentially highly diverse source for personalizable content. A key characteristic of quality video content is the engaging experience it offers for end users. This paper explores how different characteristics of a video, e.g. face detection, paralinguistic features in the audio track, extracted from different modalities...

The basic goal of the voice conversion system to mimics the characteristics of the target speaker voice by keeping the linguistic and paralinguistic information intact. The characteristics of a speaker in speech reflect at different level such as vocal tract, excitation and prosodic parameters. This propose work based on cepstrum which represents the vocal tract and excitation parameters of the...

We investigated the production and perception of paralinguistic cues to deception in a two-person, interactive game. Speakers tried to mislead their partner by lying some of the time, while listeners tried to catch speakers out by guessing when they were lying. Our results show that listeners were more likely to associate disfluencies with deception, despite the fact that speakers were in fact ...

In this paper, prosody-based attitude recognition and its application to a spoken dialog system are proposed. Paralinguistic information plays a important role in the human communication. We aimed to recognize the user’s attitude by prosody, and apply it to a spoken dialog system as para-linguistic information. In order to find important features to recognize the attitude from automatically ext...

Acoustic and articulatory properties of emotional utterances in English were examined using articulatory (EMA) recordings of speech elicited from two speakers of American English. The speakers produced 10 to 12 repetitions of the sentence “That’s wonderful,” using several different intonational patterns and types of paralinguistic information. Perception tests showed that listeners could percei...

This investigation aimed to analyze the use of turn-takings, organization adjacency pairs that are practised in Pakistani drama. Drawing on framework presented by Young (2011), this research has provided insight into relationship between conversational and situational features which conversations were performed, figure out purpose operating a conversation specific situation, especially entertai...