Respiratory Constraints in Verbal and Non-verbal Communication

Włodarczak, Marcin; Heldner, Mattias

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00708

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“…Annotation of the data was carried out semi-automatically using Praat [20] and Python scripts [21]. The sum of the rib cage and abdomen signals was used to segment the breathing signal into periods of inhalations and exhalations (for details see [22]). A total of 12.6 % of the automatically assigned borders were either moved or added manually due to some inaccuracy of the automatic annotation.…”

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Creak in the Respiratory Cycle

Aare¹,

Lippus²,

Włodarczak³

et al. 2018

Interspeech 2018

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Creakiness is a well-known turn-taking cue and has been observed to systematically accompany phrase and turn ends in several languages. In Estonian, creaky voice is frequently used by all speakers without any obvious evidence for its systematic use as a turn-taking cue. Rather, it signals a lack of prominence and is favored by lengthening and later timing in phrases. In this paper, we analyze the occurrence of creak with respect to properties of the respiratory cycle. We show that creak is more likely to accompany longer exhalations. Furthermore, the results suggest there is little difference in lung volume values regardless of the presence of creak, indicating that creaky voice might be employed to preserve air over the course of longer utterances. We discuss the results in connection to processes of speech planning in spontaneous speech.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Creak in the Respiratory Cycle

Aare¹,

Lippus²,

Włodarczak³

et al. 2018

Interspeech 2018

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“…In reading a text, the speaker is focused in chunking speech into meaningful thought groups, facilitating both his speech production and the listeners decoding task. This is thought to influence breath productivity and distribution as it has been pointed out in the literature on speech and breathing, [2,3,6] to mention a few. The constraint on planning and executing a reading task tends to be greater.…”

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“…However, in speaking about what someone has read or experienced or in producing commentaries based on appraisals, the speaker is focused on remembering facts, judging and reporting them to the listener, that is, his focus is on both informing and impressing, or in other words, in communicating. Besides communicative goals and respiratory constraints as pointed out by [6], specific stylistic speaking demands are influential since these are thought to be interwoven in complex ways in speech-breathing mechanisms.…”

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“…This was also pointed out by Denny [5]: "variability in inspired lung volume prior to speech is only partially accounted for by speech-related concerns such as the length and loudness of the planned utterance." Włodarczak and Heldner [6], in their study of semispontaneous speech breathing patterns in short and long utterances in conversational style, point out the relevance of considering communication needs besides lung volume and respiratory constraints interfering with speech respiratory patterns.…”

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The Interplay between Speech and Breathing across three Brazilian Portuguese Speaking Styles

Barbosa¹,

Madureira²

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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This paper introduces the first study on the coordination between breathing and speech in Brazilian Portuguese. Four subjects (two males and two females) were recorded by using the RespTrack device, which allows the measurement of the breathing cycle and the simultaneous recording of speech. In order to shed light on the interplay between the two activities, three speaking styles were investigated: reading, narration and commentary of story characters. Five parameters were measured: breath cycle duration, duration and amplitude of inhalation, duration to speech onset from onset of breath cycle or from peak of inhalation. Results showed stylistic and gender differences: coordination differs between reading and the other two styles; breath cycles are shorter by 1 to 1.5 second in reading; commentary does not differ between the two genders for four out of five parameters; differences between males and females are found in four out of five parameters measured, excepted breath cycle duration, and are interpreted as related to differences in thoracic volume.

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“…2.2. We proposed using breath events for segmentation since speakers' respiratory patterns relate to the speech planning process in spontaneous conversations [14] and are highly correlated with major prosodic breaks [15] and turn-taking behaviour [16].…”

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Spontaneous Conversational Speech Synthesis from Found Data

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Synthesising spontaneous speech is a difficult task due to disfluencies, high variability and syntactic conventions different from those of written language. Using found data, as opposed to labrecorded conversations, for speech synthesis adds to these challenges because of overlapping speech and the lack of control over recording conditions. In this paper we address these challenges by using a speaker-dependent CNN-LSTM breath detector to separate continuous recordings into utterances, which we here apply to extract nine hours of clean single-speaker breath groups from a conversational podcast. The resulting corpus is transcribed automatically (both lexical items and filler tokens) and used to build several voices on a Tacotron 2 architecture. Listening tests show: i) pronunciation accuracy improved with phonetic input and transfer learning; ii) it is possible to create a more fluent conversational voice by training on data without filled pauses; and iii) the presence of filled pauses improved perceived speaker authenticity. Another listening test showed the found podcast voice to be more appropriate for prompts from both public speeches and casual conversations, compared to synthesis from found read speech and from a manually transcribed lab-recorded spontaneous conversation.

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Respiratory Constraints in Verbal and Non-verbal Communication

Cited by 23 publications

References 36 publications

Creak in the Respiratory Cycle

Creak in the Respiratory Cycle

The Interplay between Speech and Breathing across three Brazilian Portuguese Speaking Styles

Spontaneous Conversational Speech Synthesis from Found Data

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