Sound moves us. Nowhere is this more apparent than in our responses to genuine
emotional vocalizations, be they heartfelt distress cries or raucous laughter. Here, we …

Play-acted emotional expressions are a frequent aspect in our life, ranging from deception to
theater, film, and radio drama, to emotion research. To date, however, it remained unclear …

Purpose Sarcasm is a specialized speech act in daily vocal communication usually
characterized by unique prosodic features, but the role of voice quality in expressing …

Emotional expressions are an essential element of human interactions. Recent work has
increasingly recognized that emotional vocalizations can color and shape interactions …

Although the expression of emotions in humans is considered to be largely universal,
cultural effects contribute to both emotion expression and recognition. To disentangle the …

Whereas several studies have explored the expression of emotions, little is known on how
the visual and audio channels are combined during production of what we call the more …

The production and perception of emotional speech is of growing importance to forensic
speech scientists. They are often asked by instructing parties to provide an opinion as to …

Background Many social processes such as emotion recognition are severely impaired in
patients with schizophrenia. While basic auditory processing seems to play a key role in …

The aim of the present work is to investigate how Japanese listeners recognize 12 audio-
visual prosodic attitudes of Japanese. Significant influences of the two speakers and three …

Les récents progrès de la synthèse de la parole ont redéfini les enjeux majeurs de la
communication personne-machine, qui s' articulent désormais autour du concept de …