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

Acoustical analysis of spectral and temporal changes in emotional speech

Miriam Kienast, Walter F. Sendlmeier

In the present study, the vocal expressions of the emotions anger, happiness, fear, boredom and sadness are acoustically analyzed in relation to neutral speech. The emotional speech material produced by actors is investigated especially with regard to spectral and segmental changes which are caused by different articulatory behavior accompanying emotional arousal. The findings are interpreted in relation to temporal variations.

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Bibliographic reference.  Kienast, Miriam / Sendlmeier, Walter F. (2000): "Acoustical analysis of spectral and temporal changes in emotional speech", In SpeechEmotion-2000, 92-97.