To understand how language influences the vocal communication of emotion, we
investigated how discrete emotions are recognized and acoustically differentiated in four …

People with different cultural backgrounds think and behave differently. Designing user
interfaces and products for different cultures also affects human factors design methodology …

The relationship between prosody and perceived affect involves multiple variables. This
paper explores the interplay of three: voice quality, f 0 contour, and the hearer's language …

During the past years the “mystery” of emotions has increasingly attracted interest in
research on human–computer interaction. In this work we investigate the problem of how to …

In the first part of this paper the principles and the state of the art of speech processing, and
especially speech synthesis and recognition, are explained. Then, a speech-based human …

The paralinguistic component of communication attracted a great deal of attention from
contemporary linguists in the 1960s. The seminal works written then by Trager, Crystal and …

Since several decades emotional databases have been recorded by various laboratories.
Many of them contain acted portrays of Darwin's famous “big four” basic emotions. In this …

Speech emotion recognition is in the focus of research since several decades and has many
applications. One problem is sparse data for supervised learning. One way to tackle this …

Although the relationship between emotions and speech is well documented, little is known
about the role of speech pauses in emotion expression and emotion recognition. The …

Социальные тактильные контакты и коммуникация с использованием тактильных
жестов начиная с 1960-х гг. вызывают все больший интерес психологов, культурологов …