A gender bias in the acoustic-melodic features of charismatic speech?

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 2017-August, Issue , 2017, Pages 2248-2252

  Novák Tót, Eszter ^a,b   Niebuhr, Oliver ^a   Chen, Aoju ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Charisma; Emphasis; Gender; Hesitation; Intensity; Prosody; Speaking rate.

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CHARISMA; EMPHASIS; GENDER; HESITATION; INTENSITY; PROSODY; SPEAKING RATE;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 85039172085     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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