Abstract

For a parametric study of interplay between loudness control and emotional modulation in voicing activity, electroglottography (EGG) data collected from two male and two female subjects are examined. The subjects read emotionally neutral sentences in a self‐controlled manner with four different emotional states (neutral, angry, sad, happy) and three levels of loudness (soft, normal, loud). The analysis focused on the timing and shape‐related EGG waveform parameters of the vowel /a/ in the data as a function of emotional state and loudness level. Specifically, open quotient (OQ), speed quotient (SQ), and noise‐to‐harmonic ratio (NHR) of EGG waveform are investigated. Pitch, root‐mean‐square (RMS) energy, and duration of speech waveform are also analyzed. Despite inter‐subject differences, some general tendencies of the EGG parameters can be observed. It is found that angry emotion shows the lowest …

Date

2007

Authors

Samuel Kim, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth Narayanan

Journal

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volume

122

Issue

5_Supplement

Pages

3019-3019

Publisher

Acoustical Society of America