Influence on emotional impression of voice by changing prosodic features

In this paper, investigate the relation between emotions represented by speech and features included in speech. There are two kinds of approaches in comparing experiment. Firstly, speech data are non-verbal such as white-noise, sine wave and vowel /a:/, so that investigate the relation between emotions and prosodic features only. Secondly, speech data include verbal information such as `ohayou´(hello), `usotsuki´(Ananias), so that investigate case speech data are words. Result of comparing shows the effect that of verbal information on emotions is strong, in case of words used this experiment. On the other hand, emotions felt by subjects are changed by variation of prosodic features in some words.