Prosodic Parameters in Emotional Speech

Kazuhito Koike, Hirotaka Suzuki, Hiroaki Saito

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Abstract

Importance of speech prosody is on the increase as spontaneous interaction between human and machines is asked for. This paper examines how prosody contributes emotions to speech. Major elements which determine the emotion are pitch, tempo, and stress of speech. The last two elements correspond to duration and power of syllables, respectively. We choose five emotions to be tested; anger, surprise, sorrow, hate, and joy. To verify our analysis, we have implemented a speech synthesis module which can easily control prosodic parameters of output speech. Responses to the synthesized speech show that the parameters of anger, sorrow and hate are confirmed over 85 %. Experiment results also suggest that surprise and joy feelings tend to depend less on its prosody.

Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 1998
Event5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: 1998 Nov 301998 Dec 4

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period98/11/3098/12/4

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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