Concept

Prosody (linguistics)

Related publications (28)

Multi-parametric source-filter separation of speech and prosodic voice restoration

In this thesis, methods and models are developed and presented aiming at the estimation, restoration and transformation of the characteristics of human speech. During a first period of the thesis, a concept was developed that allows restoring prosodic voic ...

EPFL2012

Automatic detection of conflicts in spoken conversations: ratings and analysis of broadcast political debates

Fabio Valente, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Automatic analysis of spoken conversations has recently searched for phenomena like agreement/disagreement in collaborative and non- conflictual discussions (e.g., meetings). This work adds a novel dimension investigating conflicts in spontaneous conversat ...

2012

Automatic Speaker Role Labeling in AMI Meetings: Recognition of Formal and Social Roles

Fabio Valente, Ashtosh Sapru

This work aims at investigating the automatic recognition of speaker role in meeting conversations from the AMI corpus. Two types of roles are considered: formal roles, fixed over the meeting duration and recognized at recording level, and social roles rel ...

2012

Linking Speaking and Looking Behavior Patterns with Group Composition, Perception, and Performance

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, Dairazalia Sanchez Cortes

This paper addresses the task of mining typical behavioral patterns from small group face-to-face interactions and linking them to social-psychological group variables. Towards this goal, we define group speaking and looking cues by aggregating automatical ...

2012

The Voice of Personality: Mapping Nonverbal Vocal Behavior into Trait Attributions

Gelareh Mohammadi, Alessandro Vinciarelli

This paper reports preliminary experiments on automatic attribution of personality traits based on nonverbal vocal behavioral cues. In particular, the work shows how prosodic features can be used to predict, with an accuracy up to 75% depending on the trai ...

2010

Mining group nonverbal conversational patterns using probabilistic topic models

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

The automatic discovery of group conversational behavior is a relevant problem in social computing. In this paper, we present an approach to address this problem by defining a novel group descriptor called bag of group-nonverbal-patterns defined on brief o ...

2010

Perceptual and semantic contributions to repetition priming of environmental sounds

Roberto Martuzzi, Stephanie Clarke

Repetition of environmental sounds, like their visual counterparts, can facilitate behavior and modulate neural responses, exemplifying plasticity in how auditory objects are represented or accessed. It remains controversial whether such repetition priming ...

2009

Model Adaptation for Sentence Unit Segmentation from Speech

Sébastien Cuendet

The sentence segmentation task is a classification task that aims at inserting sentence boundaries in a sequence of words. One of the applications of sentence segmentation is to detect the sentence boundaries in the sequence of words that is output by an a ...

IDIAP2006

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