The aim of this research was to determine the ability level of paralinguistic production and comprehension in adults with intellectual disability (ID) with regard to the level of their intellectual functioning and presence of co-morbid psychiatric conditions or dual diagnosis (DD). The sample consisted of 120 participants of both genders, ranging in age between 20 and 56 years (M=31.82, SD=8.70...

Paralinguistic style, involving features of speech such as pitch and volume, is an important aspect of one's communicative competence. However, little is known about the behavioral traits and cognitive skills that relate to these aspects of speech. This study examined the extent to which ADHD traits and executive functioning (EF) related to the paralinguistic styles of 8- to 12-year-old childre...

An overview of some results from our own studies on speechreading is presented. Focus is on paralinguistic cues that assist in perception of the spoken signal. We elaborate on how the contextual, and especially the emotional cues are utilised in speechreading. We further discuss which skills are important in integrating paralinguistic cues and the linguistic signal in speechreading. As a basis ...

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 ...