Perception of Emotional Valences and Activity Levels from Vowel Segments of Continuous Speech

Journal of Voice

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-38

  Waaramaa, Teija ^a   Laukkanen, Anne Maria ^a   Airas, Matti ^b   Alku, Paavo ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Inverse filtering; Perception of emotional valence; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FINLAND; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONATION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH; VOICE; VOWEL;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 72749102065     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2008.04.004     Document Type: Article

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