Emotional prosody perception is essential for social communication, but it is still an open issue whether children with high-function autism (HFA) exhibit any prosodic perception deficits or experience selective impairments in recognizing the prosody of positive emotions. Moreover, the associations between prosody perception, pragmatic language, and social adaptation in children with HFA have n...

Although advances have been made regarding how the brain perceives emotional prosody, the neural bases involved in the generation of affective prosody remain unclear and debated. Two models have been forged on the basis of clinical observations: a first model proposes that the right hemisphere sustains production and comprehension of emotional prosody, while a second model proposes that emotion...

This paper investigates the role recursive structures play in prosody. In current understanding, phonological phrasing is computed by a general syntax–prosody mapping algorithm. Here, we are interested structure that arises response to morphosyntactic needs be mapped. We investigate types of found prosody, specifically: For prosodic category κ, besides adjunctive type recursion κ[κ x], κ[x κ], ...

In cochlear implants (CI), temporal sound features are more successfully transmitted than spectral sound features. This could have consequences for the perception of prosody. This was tested for emotion vs. focus perception in simulated CI hearing, starting from the assumption that for emotional prosody spectral (F0) features are more important than for focus prosody. Sets of short Dutch phrase...

speech emotion can add more information to speech in comparison to available textual information. however, it will also lead to some problems in speech recognition process. in a previous study, we depicted the substantial changes of speech parameters caused by speech emotion. therefore, in order to improve emotional speech recognition rate, in a first step, the effects of emotion on speech par...

This paper discusses evidence of interaction found between speech rate and prosody units in Mandarin Chinese speech. Mandarin speech data of 2 different speech rates that had been previously labeled for perceived boundaries and prosody units were further analyzed for duration patterns at each prosodic level. Each prosody level demonstrated patterns of duration adjustment for both speech rates t...

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Real time prosody modification involves changing the prosody parameters such as pitch, duration and intensity of speech in real time without affecting the intelligibility and naturalness. In this paper prosody modification is performed using instants of significant excitation (ISE) of the vocal tract system during production of speech. In the conventional prosody modification system the ISE are...

For the purpose of building speech synthesis system that can generate high-quality speech with wide range in prosody and realize fine prosody control, we propose new speech database constructing method. As a speech synthesis method, we select a hybrid system which consists of two part : speech unit selection and prosody modification part by STRAIGHT (vocoder type high quality analysis-synthesis...