Abstract

Differences in speech articulation among four emotion types, neutral, anger, sadness, and happiness are investigated by analyzing tongue tip, jaw, and lip movement data collected from one male and one female speaker of American English. The data were collected using an electromagnetic articulography (EMA) system while subjects produce simulated emotional speech. Pitch, root‐mean‐square (rms) energy and the first three formants were estimated for vowel segments. For both speakers, angry speech exhibited the largest rms energy and largest articulatory activity in terms of displacement range and movement speed. Happy speech is characterized by largest pitch variability. It has higher rms energy than neutral speech but articulatory activity is rather comparable to, or less than, neutral speech. That is, happy speech is more prominent in voicing activity than in articulation. Sad speech exhibits longest …

Date

2005

Authors

Sungbok Lee, Serdar Yildirim, Murtaza Bulut, Abe Kazemzadeh, Shrikanth Narayanan

Journal

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volume

118

Issue

3_Supplement

Pages

2025-2025

Publisher

Acoustical Society of America