Besides the linguistic (verbal) information conveyed by speech, the paralinguistic (nonverbal) information, such as intenning the classification of paralinguistic information. Among the several paralinguistic items extions, attitudes and emotions expressed by the speaker, also convey important meanings in communication. Therefore, to realize a smooth communication between humans and spoken dial...

Skilled clinicians are able to integrate linguistic, paralinguistic, and non-linguistic cues in the assessment of mood disorders. This project identified durationand amplitude-based aspects of the speech signal that can be measured automatically by computer and which provide paralinguistic information about the apparent affect of a speech sample. A group of 40 experimental subjects produced 158...

The Human vocal tract is considered for its sonorous qualities in carrying prosodic information, which implicates vision in the perceptual processes of speech. These considerations are put in the context of previous work in NIME, forming background for the introduction of two sound installations; “Microphone”, which uses a camera and computer vision to translate mouth shapes to sounds, and “Mic...

Phonetic variation, and especially prosodic variation, which is often paralinguistic in nature has gradually attracted more attention among speech researchers and speech scientists as one of the possible solutions to problems with automatic speaker recognition (ASrR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) systems. This paper presents a brief overview of approaches to phonetic variation in ASrR and ...

A number of paralinguistic problems are often dealt with in isolation, such as emotion, health state or personality. However, there are also good examples of mutual benefit, mostly incorporating speaker gender knowledge. In this paper we deal with the question how further paralinguistic information, such as speaker age, height, or race can provide beneficial information when their ground truth ...

Language users benefit from special phonetic tools in order to communicate linguistic information as well as different emotional aspects and paralinguistic information through daily conversation. Having functions in conveying semantic information to listeners, prosodic features form the essential part of linguistic behavour, manipulating  them potentially can play an important role in transmitt...

Mono-syllabic interjections are often used to express a reaction in conversational speech. It is known that there is relationship between the speaking style, given by intonation and voice quality-related prosodic features, and the paralinguistic information carried by an interjection. However, it is also known that this relationship is dependent on the interjection type. In the present work, we...

The paralinguistic features, however this conference classifies the “Paralinguistic analysis” as Speaker identification, Keyword/topic spotting, and Language identification, include emotional aspects of voice, which is focused recently on interpersonal communications. Study starts from description and statistics of those features. Among many acoustic characteristics, we investigated features re...