Voice attributes affecting likability perception

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2014-2017

  Weiss, Benjamin ^a   Burkhardt, Felix ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Likability; Speaking style; Timbre; Voice

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPEECH;

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; LIKABILITY; SIMPLE METHOD; SMALL DATA SET; SPEAKING STYLES; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; TIMBRE;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79959830045     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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