The affects are expressed in different levels of speech: metalinguistic (expressiveness), linguistic (attitudes), both anchored in the “linguistic time”, and para-linguistic (emotions expressions) that is anchored in the emotional causes timing. In an experimental approach, the corpus are the base of analysis. Main of emotional corpus have been produced by acting/elicitating speakers on one sid...

This paper presents a spectral transformation method for emotional speech synthesis based on voice conversion framework. Three emotions are studied, including anger, happiness and sadness. For the sake of high naturalness, superior speech quality and emotion expressiveness, our original STASC system is modified by introducing a new feature selection strategy and hierarchical codebook mapping pr...

In this paper, we describe an approach to automatically synthesize the emotional speech of a target speaker based on the hidden Markov model for his/her neutral speech. The basic idea is the model interpolation between the neutral model of the target speaker and an emotional model selected from a candidate pool. Both the interpolation model selection and the interpolation weight computation are...

The present study examined associations between adolescents’ Emotional Expectancies (EE), Hostile Attributions of Intent (HAI), and emotions expressed during interactions with their mother father. Data were collected from 96 14- to 16-year-olds (27 African Americans, 38 European 31 Latinos; a total 51 girls 45 boys) parents over period 2 years. Questionnaires completed by adolescents used asses...

Within a Music Information Retrieval perspective, the goal of the study presented here is to investigate the impact on sound features of the musician’s affective intention, namely when trying to intentionally convey emotional contents via expressiveness. A preliminary experiment has been performed involving 10 tuba players. The recordings have been analysed by extracting a variety of features, ...

Talking heads and virtual characters, able to communicate complex information with human-like expressiveness and naturalness, should be able to display emotional facial expressions. In recent years several works, both rule-based and statistical, have obtained important results in the modelling of emotional facial expressions to be used in synthetic Talking Heads. However, most of the rule-based...

This study investigated the importance of emotion-eliciting context (positive and negative) and mother's behaviors (constrained and involved) on toddlers' emotion regulation behavioral strategies, emotional expressiveness and intensity, during three episodes eliciting fear, frustration/anger and positive affect. Fifty-five children between 18 and 26 months of age and their mothers participated ...