Title :
Statistical characteristics of the formants of the Romanian vowels in emotional states
Author :
Zbancioc, Marius ; Teodorescu, Horia-Nicolai ; Feraru, Monica
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Comput. Sci., Gheorghe Asachi Tech. Univ. of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
Abstract :
We investigate the influence of the emotions expressed by female and male speakers on the formants of the vowels in the Romanian language. The main conclusions are that the formant F4 is not significantly modified by the expressed emotion; the pitch is significantly increased for joy in all vowels; the pitch is slightly decreased under sadness, and that the change in statistic distribution is quite large in all cases (vowels and states).
Keywords :
natural language processing; speech intelligibility; statistical analysis; Romanian language; Romanian vowels; emotional states; female speakers; formant statistical characteristics; male speakers; statistic distribution; Computer science; Data mining; Databases; Emotion recognition; Software; Speech; Speech recognition; emotional states; formants analysis; statistical parameters;
Conference_Titel :
Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD), 2011 6th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brasov
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0440-6
DOI :
10.1109/SPED.2011.5940725
