Visualizing Prosodic Densities and Contours: Forming One from Many
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This paper summarizes a flora of explorative visualization techniques for prosody developed at KTH. It is demonstrated how analysis can be made which goes beyond conventional methodology. Examples are given for turn taking, affective speech, response tokens and Swedish accent II.
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