I. INTRODUCTION There is a perceptual difference between male and female speech in fundamental frequency (F0) and, less significantly, in formant frequencies. Many, naturally, assume that these characteristics are physiologically determined to a great extent, and thus speakers exert little control over these characteristics in their normal utterances. F0 is certainly influenced by anatomical di...

Intonation is often considered to play an important role in the vocal communication of emotion. Early studies using pitch manipulation have supported this view. However, the properties of pitch contours involved in marking emotional state remain largely unidentified. In this contribution, a corpus of actor-generated utterances for 8 emotions was used to measure intonation (pitch contour) by ide...

A framework of speech communication is presented in which natural spontaneous data and speech modelling are interrelated in a cyclic progession towards the goal of elucidating linguistic behaviour. Paralinguistic phenomena are treated as an integral part of a theory of speech communication. Data acquisition design has to adapt to the naturalness requirement.

Creaky voice carries important linguistic and paralinguistic information. Parameters based on autocorrelation of the glottal excitation waveform are proposed for automatic detection of creaky voice in spontaneous speech. Analysis results show the ratio of the first two peaks of the autocorrelation function as a primary parameter to detect creaky voice.

The Utsunomiya University (UU) Spoken Dialogue Database for Paralinguistic Information Studies is introduced. The UU Database is especially intended for use in understanding the usage, structure and effect of paralinguistic information in expressive Japanese conversational speech. Paralinguistic information refers to meaningful information, such as emotion or attitude, delivered along with ling...

every discourse, written or oral, is the conveyer of some hidden agenda of the producer, most importantly in such genres of speech as journalism, politics, propaganda, and advertisements. given the role of translation in discourse, a difference exists between when the translator carries the ideological values of the elite in contrast with one with patriotic preferences. in this study a comparis...

Vocal emotions, as well as different speaking styles and speaker traits are characterized by a complex interplay of multiple prosodic features. Natural sounding speech synthesis with the ability to control such paralinguistic aspects requires the manipulation of the corresponding prosodic features. With traditional concatenative speech synthesis it is easy to manipulate the “primary” prosodic f...

Our behaviors often converge with those of others, and language within social media is no exception. We consider reviews of tourist attractions at TripAdvisor (TA), the world’s largest resource for travel information. Unlike social networking sites, TA review forums do not facilitate direct interaction between participants. Nonetheless, theory suggests that language is guided by writers’ concep...