Workshop on the Auditory Basis of Speech Perception Keele University, UK July 15-19, 1996

Perceptual Cues for Emotional Speech

Gudrun Klasmeyer

Institute for Communication Science, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Emotional speech is an important field of study, because natural communication situations are seldom neutral or unemotional. In this study semantically neutral acoustic speech signals with emotional content in prosody and tone of voice are investigated. Acoustical parameters describing the temporal structure, pitch-contour and voice quality are measured in relation to an according neutral reference template. Results for happiness, anger, sadness, fear and boredom are presented.

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Bibliographic reference.  Klasmeyer, Gudrun (1996): "Perceptual cues for emotional speech", In ABSP-1996, 154-157.