Evaluating the Meaning of Synthesized Listener Vocalizations

Multidimensional meaning annotation of listener vocalizations for synthesis

Listener vocalizations convey affective and epistemic states behind the listener’s intentions while the interlocutor is talking. The meaning annotation of such vocalizations is a crucial step in synthesis of listener vocalizations. This paper presents a perception study to annotate meaning of vocalizations. In this study, subjects annotate (characterize) a set of listener vocalizations using a ...

Toriyeh: the Way of Escaping from Telling Lies to Patients

Toriyeh means concealing real intention of speech using its parallel and common words so that the listener constructs from speaker's speech a meaning what he/she meant. The purpose of this research is studying jurisprudential dimensions of toriyeh in order to clarify its distinction from lying and related jurisprudential commandments by explanation of the most important discussions about toriye...

Synthesis of Listener Vocalizations

Detection of Total Syllables and Canonical Syllables in Infant Vocalizations

During the first two years of life, human infants produce increasing numbers of speech-like (canonical) syllables. Both basic research on child speech development and clinical work assessing a child’s pre-speech capabilities stand to benefit from efficient, accurate, and consistent methods for counting the syllables present in a given infant utterance. To date, there have been only a few attemp...

Intonation as an interface between language and affect.

The vocal expression of human emotions is embedded within language and the study of intonation has to take into account two interacting levels of information--emotional and semantic meaning. In addition to the discussion of this dual coding system, an extension of Brunswik's lens model is proposed. This model includes the influences of conventions, norms, and display rules (pull effects) and ps...