Speak or shout? Nonverbal vocalizations promote rapid detection of emotions in vocal communication. [PDF]
PLoS ONEHuman vocal expressions of emotion can be expressed nonverbally, through vocalizations such as shouts or laughter, or speakers can embed emotional meanings in language by modifying their tone of voice ("prosody").
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Emotional Prosody Control for Speech Generation [PDF]
Interspeech 2021, 2021 Machine-generated speech is characterized by its limited or unnatural emotional variation. Current text to speech systems generates speech with either a flat emotion, emotion selected from a predefined set, average variation learned from prosody sequences in training data or transferred from a source style.
Sarath Sivaprasad +2 more
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Emotional Prosody Processing in Schizophrenic Patients: A Selective Review and Meta-Analysis [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2018 Hongwei Ding, Ding Hongwei
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Prosody based emotion recognition for MEXI [PDF]
2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2005 This paper describes the emotion recognition from natural speech as realized for the robot head MEXI. We use a fuzzy logic approach for analysis of prosody in natural speech. Since MEXI often communicates with well known persons but also with unknown humans, for instance at exhibitions, we realized a speaker dependent mode as well as a speaker ...
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Mark my words: tone of voice changes affective word representations in memory. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 The present study explored the effect of speaker prosody on the representation of words in memory. To this end, participants were presented with a series of words and asked to remember the words for a subsequent recognition test. During study, words were
Annett Schirmer
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Assessing the perception of emotional prosody in healthy ageing
International Journal of Language & Communication DisordersBackground Emotional prosody is the reflection of emotion types such as happiness, sadness, fear and anger in the speaker's tone of voice. Accurately perceiving, interpreting and expressing emotional prosody is an inseparable part of successful ...
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Associations between vocal emotion recognition and socio-emotional adjustment in children
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 The human voice is a primary channel for emotional communication. It is often presumed that being able to recognize vocal emotions is important for everyday socio-emotional functioning, but evidence for this assumption remains scarce.
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Inferring emotions from speech prosody: not so easy at age five. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Previous research has suggested that children do not rely on prosody to infer a speaker's emotional state because of biases toward lexical content or situational context.
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Prosody, emotions, and… ‘whatever’
Interspeech 2007, 2007 We examine the role of prosody in cueing a scale of negative meanings associated with the use of whatever. The analysis of a corpus of elicited examples shows that the more negative the token, the more likely it is to have an additional pitch accent, extended duration, and expanded pitch range on the first syllable. These findings are analyzed as a
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Social power and recognition of emotional prosody : High power is associated with lower recognition accuracy than low power [PDF]
, 2016 Listeners have to pay close attention to a speaker’s tone of voice (prosody) during daily conversations. This is particularly important when trying to infer the emotional state of the speaker.
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