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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2008

Testimonials on emotions - a multimodal speech analysis

Gaëlle Ferré

Résumé

The proposal in this pilot study is to present a prosodic and gestural analysis of testimonials on emotions in English and French, the premise being that while recollecting emotions, speakers give some representation of the emotions they convey. They actually shift from neutral to more emotional speech. The corpus described below is a series of podcasts in which ordinary people from different countries have been video recorded giving their opinion on issues that involve emotional speech. Three emotions have been considered: cold anger, sadness and happiness, and in terms of prosody, the paper concentrates on the intonation contours used by the speakers rather than on pitch span and F0 level. The annotation of gestures made with ELAN is based on a modified version of the MUMIN Coding Scheme (Allwood et al., 2005) and the conclusion of the paper is that speech is felt to be more emotional when a set of prosodic and gestural parameters is modified from more neutral speech, e.g. smiles or laughs do not in themselves convey happiness, but must be combined with other gestural and prosodic features to do so.

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Linguistique
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hal-00436565 , version 1 (27-11-2009)

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Gaëlle Ferré. Testimonials on emotions - a multimodal speech analysis. Actes, LREC08 - Language Resource and Evaluation COnference, May 2008, Marrakech, Morocco. pp.87-92. ⟨hal-00436565⟩
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