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doi:10.22028/D291-23507
Title: | Imitating conversational laughter with an articulatory speech synthesizer |
Author(s): | Lasarcyk, Eva Trouvain, Jürgen |
Other involved persons: | Trouvain, Jürgen Campbell, Nick |
Language: | German |
Year of Publication: | 2007 |
OPUS Source: | Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on The Phonetics of Laughter : Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, 4-5 August 2007. - Saarbrücken : Univ. des Saarlandes, 2007, S. 43-48 |
DDC notations: | 400 Language, linguistics |
Publikation type: | Conference Paper |
Abstract: | In this study we present initial efforts to model laughter with an articulatory speech synthesizer. We aimed at imitating a real laugh taken from a spontaneous speech database and created several synthetic versions of it using articulatory synthesis and diphone synthesis. In modeling laughter with articulatory synthesis, we also approximated features like breathing noises that do not normally occur in speech. Evaluation with respect to the perceived degree of naturalness indicated that the laugh stimuli would pass as "laughs'; in an appropriate conversational context. In isolation, though, significant differences could be measured with regard to the degree of variation (durational patterning, fundamental frequency, intensity) within each laugh. |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-14866 hdl:20.500.11880/23563 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-23507 |
Date of registration: | 17-Apr-2008 |
Faculty: | P - Philosophische Fakultät |
Department: | P - Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie |
Former Department: | bis SS 2016: Fachrichtung 4.7 - Allgemeine Linguistik |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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