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Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech

The Bias of Language and Paralanguage

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Swati Johar

    1. Defence Institute of Psychological Research, Defence R&D Organization, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi, India

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  • Focuses the attention of the reader to vocal paralanguage as a critical input to identity, gender, age and other attributes
  • Asserts why vocalizations and paralinguistic properties are useful in identifying the emotional state of the speaker and understanding the non-explicit meaning of one’s speech
  • Provides a comprehensive multidirectional perspective on understanding the boundaries of language and its implications
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology (BRIEFSSPEECHTECH)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Swati Johar
    Pages 1-7

  3. Psychology of Voice

    • Swati Johar
    Pages 9-15

  4. Language, Communication and Human Behaviour

    • Swati Johar
    Pages 17-23

  5. Multimodality and Spoken Dialogue Systems

    • Swati Johar
    Pages 25-33

  6. Emotional Speech Recognition

    • Swati Johar
    Pages 35-41

  7. Where Speech Recognition Is Going: Conclusion and Future Scope

    • Swati Johar
    Pages 43-49

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 52-53
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About this book

This book explores the various categories of speech variation and works to draw a line between linguistic and paralinguistic phenomenon of speech.  Paralinguistic contrast is crucial to human speech but has proven to be one of the most difficult tasks in speech systems. In the quest for solutions to speech technology and sciences, this book narrows down the gap between speech technologists and phoneticians and emphasizes the imperative efforts required to accomplish the goal of paralinguistic control in speech technology applications and the acute need for a multidisciplinary categorization system. This interdisciplinary work on paralanguage will not only serve as a source of information but also a theoretical model for linguists, sociologists, psychologists, phoneticians and speech researchers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Defence Institute of Psychological Research, Defence R&D Organization, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi, India

    Swati Johar

About the author

Swati Johar is Scientist ‘C’ at the Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR), Delhi. She is involved in many major research projects from an interdisciplinary perspective, including research on image and signal processing.  She has completed her M.Tech from BITS, Pilani and her research work on gestures and speech recognition has been published in reputed International Journals and proposed to be integrated with the New Selection System being developed for the Indian Armed Forces. Emotion recognition and non-verbal behaviour are some of her areas of interest and she has published scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. She authored a few book chapters dealing with human computer interaction and technological emergence, and has been an active member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) society for more than 3 years.

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