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Analysis of the Roles and the Dynamics of Breathy and Whispery Voice Qualities in Dialogue Speech

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Breathy and whispery voices are nonmodal phonations produced by an air escape through the glottis and may carry important linguistic or paralinguistic information (intentions, attitudes, and emotions), depending on the language. Analyses on spontaneous dialogue speech utterances of several speakers show that breathy and whispery voices are related with the expression of a variety of emotion- or attitude-related paralinguistic information. Potential acoustic parameters for characterizing breathy/whispery segments are introduced and used to describe the dynamics of breathiness along the utterances in different paralinguistic items.

Source: EURASIP Journal on Audio Speech and Music Processing

DOI: 10.1186/1687-4722-2010-528193

Authors: Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita

Institution: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International

Language: English

Topic: Phonetics and Phonology Research

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,890

Funder: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications