Memorias de investigación
Artículos en revistas:
Cross-Cultural Perception of Spanish Synthetic Expressive Voices Among Asians
Año:2018

Áreas de investigación
  • Tecnología electrónica y de las comunicaciones,
  • Ingeniería eléctrica, electrónica y automática

Datos
Descripción
Nonverbal cues play a vital role in contributing to how emotions are perceived, especially by outgroups. In this study, a cross-cultural perception experiment of Spanish Synthetic Expressive Voices (SEV) was conducted to investigate the perception rate among different groups of Asians towards the SEV. Ten (10) subjects from each ethnic group namely Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, andMalaysiansparticipatedinthistest. ThesubjectswererequiredtolistentoandcategorizetheSEV corpus which contains 260 utterances with 4 emotions (anger, happiness, sadness, and surprise) and the neutral speech in different intensities and durations. Overall, the results indicate that duration and intensity of speech plays a signi?cant role in perception. This paper concludes that listeners? perceptionsarein?uenced byaspeaker?snonverbal expression andit isimportant thatthese features (duration and intensity of speech) are considered when modelling synthetic speech for arti?cial agents in real-time applications in a cross-cultural user environment.
Internacional
Si
JCR del ISI
Si
Título de la revista
Applied Sciences-Basel
ISSN
2076-3417
Factor de impacto JCR
1,689
Información de impacto
Volumen
8
DOI
Número de revista
3
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1
Hasta la página
12
Mes
MARZO
Ranking
Journal Rank in Category 77/146

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Participantes
  • Autor: Ganapreeta Renunathan Naidu School of Computer Sciences, University Sains Malaysia, Gelugor 11800, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
  • Autor: Syaheerah Lebai Lut¿ School of Computer Sciences, University Sains Malaysia, Gelugor 11800, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
  • Autor: Amal Abdulrahman Azazi School of Computer Sciences, University Sains Malaysia, Gelugor 11800, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
  • Autor: Jaime Lorenzo Trueba Amazon Reino Unido
  • Autor: Juan Manuel Montero Martinez UPM

Grupos de investigación, Departamentos, Centros e Institutos de I+D+i relacionados
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de Tecnología del Habla
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Centro de I+d+i en Procesado de la Información y Telecomunicaciones
  • Departamento: Ingeniería Electrónica