ITRW on Speech and Emotion September 5-7, 2000 Newcastle, Northern Ireland, UK

Describing the emotional states expressed in speech

Roddy Cowie

Psychology, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Describing relationships between speech and emotion depends on identifying appropriate ways of describing the emotional states that speech conveys. Several forms of description are potentially relevant. The most familiar have obvious shortcomings, and alternatives urgently need to be explored.

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Bibliographic reference.  Cowie, Roddy (2000): "Describing the emotional states expressed in speech", In SpeechEmotion-2000, 11-18.