Investigating the prosody and voice quality of social signals in scenario meetings

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6974 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 46-56

  Charfuelan, Marcela ^a,b   Schröder, Marc ^a,b  

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

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CORRELATES; PERCEPTUAL INTERPRETATION; PROSODY; SOCIAL SIGNALS; VOICE QUALITY;

INTELLIGENT COMPUTING; MACHINE COMPONENTS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054836653     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24600-5_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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