Voice quality analysis of American and German speakers

Scherer, Klaus R.

doi:10.1007/bf01069244

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“…We therefore compared native speakers of American English and German, using stimuli in the German language. 1 1 In many ways, English and German are similar in phonological structure, with respect to consonant-vowe l patterns and syllabic shape (e.g., Scherer, 1974 …”

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“…Therefore, the primary goal of the present investigation was to examine the effects of systematic acoustic manipulation of vocal emotional stimuli on listeners' perception. In addition, even less is known about the cross-cultural processing of vocal emotions (emotional prosody), as the majority of cross-cultural studies have focused on cue utilisation in the perception of facial expressions (e.g., see Cornelius, 1996, for review;Ekman & Friesen, 1971;Massaro & Ellison, 1996) or vocal correlates of personality dimensions (e.g., Apple, Streeter, & Krauss, 1979;Brown, Strong, & Rencher, 1973;Kramer, 1963;Scherer, 1972Scherer, , 1974Scherer, , 1978. Thus, a second, more exploratory aim was to compare two different nations (American, German) on the same set of stimuli to address questions about sample differences in the perception of emotional tones of voice.…”

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The contribution of speech rate and pitch variation to the perception of vocal emotions in a German and an American sample

Breitenstein

Lancker

Daum

2001

Cognition & Emotion

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The contribution of speech rate and pitch variation to the perception of vocal emotions in a German and an American sample

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Lancker

Daum

2001

Cognition & Emotion

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“…In many ways, English and German are similar in phonological structure, with respect to consonant-vowel patterns and syllabic shape (e.g.,Scherer, 1974).…”

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The contribution of speech rate and pitch variation to the perception of vocal emotions in a German and an American sample

Breitenstein

Lancker

Daum

2001

Cognition and Emotion

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The present study examined acoustic cue utilisation for perception of vocal emotions. Two sets of vocal-emotional stimuli were presented to 35 German and 30 American listeners: (1) sentences in German spoken with five different vocal emotions; and (2) systematically rate-or pitch-altered versions of the original emotional stimuli. In addition to response frequencies on emotional categories, activity ratings were obtained. For the systematically altered stimuli, slow rate was reliably associated with the ''sad'' label. In contrast, fast rate was classified as angry, frightened, or neutral. Manipulation of pitch variation was less potent than rate manipulation in influencing vocal emotional category choices. Reduced pitch variation was associated with perception as sad or neutral; greater pitch variation increased frightened, angry, and happy responses. Performance was highly similar for the two samples, although across tasks, German subjects perceived greater variability of activity in the emotional stimuli than did American participants.Little is known about the contribution of single acoustic parameters to the perception of specific vocal emotions. Therefore, the primary goal of the present investigation was to examine the effects of systematic acoustic manipulation of vocal emotional stimuli on listeners' perception. In addition, even less is known about the cross-cultural processing of vocal emotions (emotional prosody), as the majority of cross-cultural studies have focused on cue utilisation in the perception ). Thus, a second, more exploratory aim was to compare two different nations (American, German) on the same set of stimuli to address questions about sample differences in the perception of emotional tones of voice. Acoustic correlates of vocal emotionsDifferent emotions are cued by different combinations of acoustic parameters, with speech rate and fundamental frequency (F0; the acoustic correlate of perceived pitch in a speaker's voice) presumably exerting the strongest effect (Banse

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“…Detailed phonetic descriptions of these voice quality parameters, a description of the rating procedure, and detailed reports on the reliability of the expert judgments and the interrelationships between scales can be found in Scherer (1974a). The mean ratings of the six phoneticians were used as distal indicator values.…”

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