A Preliminary Study on Emotions of Chinese Whispered Speech
This paper focuses on the emotional Chinese whispered speech. The auditory perception is to demonstrate that whispered speech can also carry emotional information as the voiced one do. The experiment carried on the single tonal whispered Mandarin shows that the falling-raising and falling tones could transfer feelings better than the high-level and raising ones. The accuracy of perception indicates that anger, sad and afraid are more easily to be perceived. The statistic of misperception in this test illustrates the similarity between each emotion. Apart from the perception experiment, the acousitc analysis is also conducted. The prosodic features, including short time energy and speakrate, voice quality parameter - formant, and spectrum are abstracted to analyze the differences between emotions of Chinese whispered speech. Meanwhile, the feasibility of emotional identification of whispered speech is certified.
whispered speech auditory perception acoustic feature formant abstraction spectrum analysis
Gong Chenghui Zhao Heming Zou Wei Wang Yanlei Wang Min
School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China School of Electr School of Electronic Information, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
国际会议
重庆
英文
911-915
2009-12-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）