Prosody and voice quality of vocal social signals: The case of dominance in scenario meetings

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2558-2561

  Charfuelan, Marcela ^a   Schröder, Marc ^a   Steiner, Ingmar ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic correlates; Perceptual interpretation; Prosody; Vocal social signals; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC CORRELATES; PERCEPTUAL INTERPRETATION; PROSODY; SOCIAL SIGNALS; VOICE QUALITY; AVERAGE-VOICE; CORE FACTORS; PRINCIPAL-COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROJECT MANAGERS; VOCAL SOCIAL SIGNAL;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959857229     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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