The expression and experience of human behavior are complex and multimodal and
characterized by individual and contextual heterogeneity and variability. Speech and …

Superimposition is a composition technique that has been applied successfully in many
areas of software development. Although superimposition is a general-purpose concept, it …

We present an open-source software platform that transforms emotional cues expressed by
speech signals using audio effects like pitch shifting, inflection, vibrato, and filtering. The …

Generating expressive synthetic voices requires carefully designed databases that contain
sufficient amount of expressive speech material. This paper investigates voice conversion …

Given the lack of effective biological markers for early diagnosis of bipolar mania, and the
tendency for voice fluctuation during transition between mood states, this study aimed to …

This paper presents a case study to introduce a new technique for identifying and comparing
cognitive strategies. The technique integrates eye movements with the Index of Cognitive …

The role of automatic emotion recognition from speech is growing continuously because of
the accepted importance of reacting to the emotional state of the user in human–computer …

Emotional information in speech is commonly described in terms of prosody features such
as F0, duration, and energy. In this paper, the focus is on how F0 characteristics can be used …

Phonetic variability has long been considered a confounding factor for emotional speech
processing, so phonetic features have been rarely explored. However, surprisingly some …

This work focuses on the development of expressive text-to-speech synthesis techniques for
a Chinese spoken dialog system, where the expressivity is driven by the message content …