title: Emotions in vowel segments of continuous speech: analysis of the glottal flow using the normalised amplitude quotient.
abstract: Emotions in short vowel segments of continuous speech were analysed using inverse filtering and a recently developed glottal flow parameter, the normalised amplitude quotient (NAQ). Simulated emotion portrayals were produced by 9 professional stage actors. Separated /a:/ vowel segments were inverse filtered and parameterized using NAQ. Statistical analyses showed significant differences among most of the emotions studied. Results also demonstrated clear gender differences. Inverse filtering, together with NAQ, was shown to be a promising method for the analysis of emotional content in continuous speech.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Espoo, Finland. Matti.Aires@hut.fi
authors.forename: Matti
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Airas
authors.forename: Paavo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Alku
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D005931:Glottis / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010699:Phonation / Q000502:physiology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests; D013637:Tape Recording; D014831:Voice / Q000502:physiology*