• DocumentCode
    2019496
  • Title

    Statistical characteristics of the formants of the Romanian vowels in emotional states

  • Author

    Zbancioc, Marius ; Teodorescu, Horia-Nicolai ; Feraru, Monica

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Comput. Sci., Gheorghe Asachi Tech. Univ. of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-21 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    10
  • Abstract
    We investigate the influence of the emotions expressed by female and male speakers on the formants of the vowels in the Romanian language. The main conclusions are that the formant F4 is not significantly modified by the expressed emotion; the pitch is significantly increased for joy in all vowels; the pitch is slightly decreased under sadness, and that the change in statistic distribution is quite large in all cases (vowels and states).
  • Keywords
    natural language processing; speech intelligibility; statistical analysis; Romanian language; Romanian vowels; emotional states; female speakers; formant statistical characteristics; male speakers; statistic distribution; Computer science; Data mining; Databases; Emotion recognition; Software; Speech; Speech recognition; emotional states; formants analysis; statistical parameters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD), 2011 6th Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Brasov
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0440-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SPED.2011.5940725
  • Filename
    5940725