Duration and intonation in emotional speech

J. Vroomen; R.P.G. Collier; S.J.L. Mozziconacci

Duration and intonation in emotional speech

J. Vroomen
, R.P.G. Collier
, S.J.L. Mozziconacci

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Abstract

Three experiments investigated the role of duration and intonation in the expression of emotions in natural and synthetic speech. Two sentences of an actor portraying seven emotions (neutral, joy, boredom, anger, sadness, fear, indignation) were acoustically analyzed. By copying pitch and duration of the original utterances to a monotonous one, it could be shown that both factors were sufficient to express the various emotions. In the second part, rules about intonation and duration were derived and tested. These rules were applied to resynthesized natural speech and synthetic speech generated from LPC-coded diphones. The results showed that emotions can be expressed accurately by manipulating pitch and duration in a rule-based way.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Eurospeech 93, Berlin, Germany, September 21-23, 1993
Pages	577-580
Volume	1
Publication status	Published - 1993

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Duration and intonation in emotional speech. / Vroomen, J.; Collier, R.P.G.; Mozziconacci, S.J.L.
Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Eurospeech 93, Berlin, Germany, September 21-23, 1993. Vol. 1 1993. p. 577-580.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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