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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)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Emotion and Personality in Speech
- Language, Communication and Human Behavior
- Linguistics
- Paralanguage and Paralinguistics
- Paralinguistic Contrast
- Speech Recognition Systems
- Speech Technology Applications
- Speech Variation
- Verbal and Non-verbal Modalities of Human Speech
- Voice-psychological and Physiological Elements
Authors and Affiliations
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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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech
Book Subtitle: The Bias of Language and Paralanguage
Authors: Swati Johar
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28047-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28045-5Published: 08 January 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28047-9Published: 22 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2191-737X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-7388
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 52
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Computational Linguistics, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction