Prosody is important in spoken language, and especially in dialog, but its utility for search in dialog archives has remained an open question. Using prosody-based measures of similarity, which also roughly correlate with dialog-activity similarity and topic similarity, we built support for “retrieve more like this” searches. Performance on the Similar Segments in Social Speech Task at MediaEva...

The unique charm of the study on Shanghai pragmatic prosody lies both in fact that culture is a melting pot where maritime and immigrant cultures meet rub shoulders, prosodic variation rapid development city. following features research are evident: 1) predominance individual prosody. focuses linguistic phenomena, does not systematically investigate as single object. 2) contexts usually divided...

Emotional prosody carries information about the inner state of a speaker and therefore helps us to understand how other people feel. However, emotions are also transferred verbally. In order to further substantiate the underlying mechanisms of emotional prosodic processing we investigated the interaction of both emotional prosody and emotional semantics with eventrelated brain potentials (ERPs)...

The W3C Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) unifies a number of recent related markup languages that have emerged to fill the perceived need for increased, and standardized, user control over Text to Speech (TTS) engines. One of the main drivers for markup has been the increasing use of TTS engines as embedded components of specific applications – which means they are in a position to take ...

BACKGROUND Prosody, the melody and intonation of speech, involves the rhythm, rate, pitch and voice quality to relay linguistic and emotional information from one individual to another. A significant component of human social communication depends upon interpreting and responding to another person's prosodic tone as well as one's own ability to produce prosodic speech. However there has been li...

The majority of evidence on social anxiety (SA)-linked attentional biases to threat comes from research using facial expressions. Emotions are, however, communicated through other channels, such as voice. Despite its importance in the interpretation of social cues, emotional prosody processing in SA has been barely explored. This study investigated whether SA is associated with enhanced process...

Speech prosody is known to be central in advanced communication technologies. However, despite the advances of theoretical studies in speech prosody, so far, no large scale prosody annotated resources that would facilitate empirical research and the development of empirical computational approaches are available. This is to a large extent due to the fact that current common prosody annotation c...

Talkers produce different types of spoken prosody by varying acoustic cues (e.g., F0, duration, and amplitude), also making complementary head and face movements (visual prosody). Perceivers can categorise auditory and visual prosodic expressions at high levels of accuracy. Research using eyetracking trained participants to recognise the visual prosody of two-word sentences and found that the u...

Patients with schizophrenia have well-established deficits in their ability to identify emotion from facial expression and tone of voice. In the visual modality, there is strong evidence that basic processing deficits contribute to impaired facial affect recognition in schizophrenia. However, few studies have examined the auditory modality for mechanisms underlying affective prosody identificat...

Talkers can express different meanings or emotions without changing what is said by changing how it is said (by using both auditory and/or visual speech cues). Typically, cue strength differs between the auditory and visual channels: linguistic prosody (expression) is clearest in audition; emotional prosody is clearest visually. We investigated how well perceivers can match auditory and visual ...