The best actors, particularly classic Shakespearian actors, are experts at vocal expression.
With prosodic inflection, change of voice quality, and non-textual utterances, they …

This paper aims at investigating whether intentional efforts of voice actors to adopt different
levels of naturalness when dubbing scenes portraying different emotions could be detected …

This study examines the perception and preferences of Spanish viewers for natural vs. play-
acted dubbing styles in different emotionally-loaded scenes. Two scenes portraying high …

What do people hear in expressive, unprompted speech? And how can their descriptions be
transformed into a representative set of dimensions of vocal expression? This paper …

This dissertation explored perception and modeling of human vocal expression, and began
by asking what people heard in expressive speech. To address this fundamental question …